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Miniature Tunable Laser Spectrometers for Quantifying Atmospheric Trace Gases, Water Resources, Earth Back-Contamination, and In Situ Resource UtilizationThe Tunable Laser Spectrometers (TLS) technique has seen wide applicability in gas measurement and analysis for atmospheric analysis, industrial, commercial and health monitoring and space applications. In Earth science using balloons and aircraft over 2 decades, several groups (JPL, NASA Langley & Ames, NOAA, Harvard U., etc) have demonstrated the technique for ozone hole studies, lab kinetics measurements, cloud physics and transport, climate change in the ice record. The recent availability of high-power (mW) room temperature lasers (TDL, IC, QC) has enabled miniaturized, high-sensitivity spectrometers for industry and space (1) Mars, Titan, Venus, Saturn, Moon (2) Commercial isotope ratio spectrometers are replacing bulkier, complex isotope ratio mass spectrometers.
Document ID
20130010569
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Presentation
External Source(s)
Authors
Webster, Chris
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Blacksberg, Jordana
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Flesch, Greg
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Keymeulen, Didier
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Christensen, Lance
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Forouhar, Siamak
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
June 12, 2012
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Meeting Information
Meeting: Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration Lunar and Planetary Institute
Location: Houston, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: June 12, 2012
End Date: June 14, 2012
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Tunable laser spectrometers (TLS)
detectors
isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS)e
lasers

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