1. Environmental trace gas detection using laser spectroscopy

   • Frank K. Tittel

   Editorial Pages: 273 - 273

2. In-situ sensing of tropospheric water vapor using an airborne near-IR diode laser hygrometer

   • D.M. Sonnenfroh
   • W.J. Kessler
   • J.D.W. Barrick

   Regular paper Pages: 275 - 282

3. Diode-laser absorption measurements of CO2, H2O, N2O, and NH3 near 2.0 μm

   • R.M. Mihalcea
   • M.E. Webber
   • W.B. Chapman

   Regular paper Pages: 283 - 288

4. Fundamental noise sources in a high-sensitivity two-tone frequency modulation spectrometer and detection of CO2 at 1.6 μm and 2 μm

   • G. Modugno
   • C. Corsi
   • M. Inguscio

   Regular paper Pages: 289 - 296

5. Gas monitoring in the process industry using diode laser spectroscopy

   • I. Linnerud
   • P. Kaspersen
   • T. Jaeger

   Regular paper Pages: 297 - 305

6. Near-infrared trace-gas sensors based on room-temperature diode lasers

   • P. Werle
   • R. Mücke
   • T. Lancia

   Regular paper Pages: 307 - 315

7. Laboratory, ground-based, and airborne tunable diode laser systems: performance characteristics and applications in atmospheric studies

   • A. Fried
   • B. Henry
   • J.R. Drummond

   Regular paper Pages: 317 - 330

8. Intracavity frequency mixing in pulsed optical parametric oscillators for the efficient generation of continuously tunable ultraviolet radiation

   • A. Fix
   • G. Ehret

   Regular paper Pages: 331 - 338

9. Real-time measurements of trace gases using a compact difference-frequency-based sensor operating at 3.5 μm

   • D.G. Lancaster
   • D. Richter
   • F.K. Tittel

   Regular paper Pages: 339 - 345

10. Compact mid-infrared trace gas sensor based on difference-frequency generation of two diode lasers in periodically poled LiNbO3

    • D. Richter
    • D.G. Lancaster
    • F.K. Tittel

    Regular paper Pages: 347 - 350

11. Broadly tunable difference-frequency spectrometer for trace gas detection with noncollinear critical phase-matching in LiNbO3

    • M. Seiter
    • D. Keller
    • M.W. Sigrist

    Regular paper Pages: 351 - 356

12. Mid-infrared spectroscopic detection of trace gases using guided-wave difference-frequency generation

    • K.P. Petrov
    • A.T. Ryan
    • D.J. Bamford

    Regular paper Pages: 357 - 361

13. An all-diode-laser-based, dual-cavity AgGaS2 cw difference-frequency source for the 9–11 μm range

    • D. Lee
    • T. Kaing
    • J.-J. Zondy

    Regular paper Pages: 363 - 367

14. A tunable diode-laser spectrometer for the MIR region near 7.2 μm applying difference-frequency generation in AgGaSe2

    • B. Sumpf
    • D. Rehle
    • H.-D. Kronfeldt

    Regular paper Pages: 369 - 373

15. Difference-frequency laser spectroscopy detection of acetylene trace constituent

    • W. Chen
    • G. Mouret
    • D. Boucher

    Regular paper Pages: 375 - 378

16. Gas sensing using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

    • D.M. Mittleman
    • R.H. Jacobsen
    • M.C. Nuss

    Regular paper Pages: 379 - 390

17. X-ray emission in the ‘water window’ from a nitrogen gas puff target irradiated with a nanosecond Nd:glass laser pulse

    • H. Fiedorowicz
    • A. Bartnik
    • T. Wilhein

    Rapid communication Pages: 391 - 393

18. Wet bone ablation with mechanically Q-switched high-repetition-rate CO2 laser

    • M.M. Ivanenko
    • P. Hering

    Rapid communication Pages: 395 - 397