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Mid-infrared multi-mode absorption spectroscopy, MUMAS, using difference frequency generation

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Multi-mode absorption spectroscopy of ammonia and methane at 3.3 μm has been demonstrated using a source of multi-mode mid-infrared radiation based on difference frequency generation. Multi-mode radiation at 1.56 μm from a diode-pumped Er:Yb:glass laser was mixed with a single-mode Nd:YAG laser at 1.06 μm in a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal to produce multi-mode radiation in the region of 3.3 μm. Detection, by direct multi-mode absorption, of NH3 and CH4 is reported for each species individually and also simultaneously in mixtures allowing measurements of partial pressures of each species.

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    Present address: School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

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    Henry Northern, Seamus O’Hagan, Michelle L. Hamilton & Paul Ewart

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Northern, H., O’Hagan, S., Hamilton, M.L. et al. Mid-infrared multi-mode absorption spectroscopy, MUMAS, using difference frequency generation. Appl. Phys. B 118, 343–351 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5989-5

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