TY - BOOK ID - 100226459 TI - Tunable Diode-Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Trace-Gas Measurements with High Sensitivity and Low Drift PY - 2009 SN - 1000010030 3866443285 PB - KIT Scientific Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Water Isotopic Ratio KW - Diode Laser KW - Laser Spectroscopy KW - Formaldehyde KW - Stark Effect UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100226459 AB - This book discusses the mechanical and opto-electronic design of laser spectrometers for measuring two very important atmospheric gases, namely water vapor and its isotopic ratios, and formaldehyde. For measuring water vapor, shot-noise limited sensitivity has been achieved by a careful choice of system components and data processing. For measuring formaldehyde, a selective sample modulation exploiting the Stark effect has been used to greatly improve the sensitivity. ER -