Liquid core waveguide with fiber optic coupling for remote pollution monitoring in the deep ultraviolet

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 279-284

  Belz, Mathias ^a   Dress, Peter ^b   Klein, Karl F ^c   Boyle, William J O ^a   Franke, Hilmar ^b   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Fachhochschule Gie en F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liquid core waveguide; Nitrates; UV fibres; UV spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85087582101     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.1998.0552     Document Type: Article

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