• DocumentCode
    3627380
  • Title

    Mid-Infrared Methane Sensing Using an Optical Parametric Oscillator and a Photonic Bandgap Fiber as a Gas Cell

  • Author

    L. W. Kornaszewski;N. Gayraud;W. N. MacPherson;D. P. Hand;D. T. Reid;J. M. Stone;A. K. George;J. C. Knight

  • Author_Institution
    School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK. Phone: +44(0)131 451 3046 - Fax: +44(0)131 451 3136 - lwk1@hw.ac.uk
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Mid-infrared methane sensing is demonstrated using a photonic bandgap fiber-based gas cell and broadband idler pulses from a periodically-poled lithium niobate femtosecond optical parametric oscillator as the light source for Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
  • Keywords
    "Optical sensors","Oscillators","Photonic bandgap fibers","Ultrafast optics","Photonic band gap","Optical pulses","Lithium niobate","Light sources","Fourier transforms","Infrared spectra"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2160-9004
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452838
  • Filename
    4452838