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Opt Lett. 2012 May 15;37(10):1706-8. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.001706.

Water vapor concentration measurement in air using filament-induced fluorescence spectroscopy.

Optics letters

Tie-Jun Wang, Huailiang Xu, Jean-François Daigle, Aravindan Sridharan, Shuai Yuan, See Leang Chin

Affiliations

  1. Centre d’Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL) and Département de physique, de génie physique et d’optique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.

PMID: 22627544 DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.001706

Abstract

Water vapor fluorescence in air induced by femtosecond laser filaments was systematically investigated. The fluorescence signal intensity was found to be linearly proportional to the water vapor concentration, which opens up the possibility of absolute humidity measurements, even remotely.

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