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Trace-gas detection in ambient air with a thermoelectrically cooled, pulsed quantum-cascade distributed feedback laser

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A pulsed quantum-cascade distributed feedback laser operating at near room temperature was used for sensitive high-resolution IR absorption spectroscopy of ambient air at a wavelength of ∼8 µm. Near-transform-limited laser pulses were obtained owing to short (∼5-ns) current pulse excitation and optimized electrical coupling. Fast and slow computer-controlled frequency scanning techniques were implemented and characterized. Fast computer-controlled laser wavelength switching was used to acquire second-derivative absorption spectra. The minimum detectable absorption was found to be 3 × 10-4 with 105 laser pulses (20-kHz repetition rate), and 1.7 × 10-4 for 5 × 105 pulses, based on the standard deviation of the linear regression analysis.

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