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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2006
Applicants:
Sergey Mirov, Birmingham, AL (US);
Vladimir Fedorov, Birmingham, AL (US);
Igor Moskalev, Birmingham, AL (US);
Inventors:
Sergey Mirov, Birmingham, AL (US);
Vladimir Fedorov, Birmingham, AL (US);
Igor Moskalev, Birmingham, AL (US);
Assignee:
The UAB Research Foundation, Birmingham, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical nose for detecting the presence of molecular contaminants in gaseous samples utilizes a tunable seed laser output in conjunction with a pulsed reference laser output to generate a mid-range IR laser output in the 2 to 20 micrometer range for use as a discriminating light source in a photo-acoustic gas analyzer.