Development and application of spectroscopic techniques in the mid-infrared

Thesis

Applications of laser absorption spectroscopy for trace gas detection are many and diverse, ranging from the environmental and atmospheric to the medical and industrial. The aim of creating a spectrometer which combines high sensitivities and selectivities (in order to measure small amounts of absorbers or species that are only weakly absorbing, in a complex background matrix) with a wide spectral coverage (to allow broadband absorbers or multi-component samples to be studied) can be reali...

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Authors: Whittaker, K

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: optical cavities; breath analysis; mid-infrared; difference frequency generation; spectroscopy
• Subjects: Laser Spectroscopy