We describe here the Harvard integrated cavity output spectroscopy (ICOS) isotope instrument, a mid-IR infrared spectrometer using ICOS to make in situ measurements of the primary isotopologues of water vapor (H2O, HDO, and H218O) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). The long path length provided by ICOS provides the sensitivity and accuracy necessary to measure...
Greg Engel's Publications
Sayres, D.S., E.J. Moyer, T.F. Hanisco, J.M. Clair, F.N. Keutsch, A. O’Brien, N.T. Allen, L.Lapson, J.N. Demusz, M. Rivero, T. Martin, M. Greenberg, C. Tuozzolo, G.S. Engel, J.H. Kroll, J.B. Paul, and J.G. Anderson, A New Cavity Based Absorption Instrument for Detection of Water Isotopologues in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, Review of Scientific Instruments, 80, 2009.
Sayres, D. S., and Coauthors, 2009: A new cavity based absorption instrument for detection of water isotopologues in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Rev. Sci. Instrum., 80, 044102, doi:10.1063/1.3117349.
We describe here the Harvard integrated cavity output spectroscopy (ICOS) isotope instrument, a mid-IR infrared spectrometer using ICOS to make in situ measurements of the primary isotopologues of water vapor (H2O, HDO, and H218O) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). The long path length provided by ICOS provides the sensitivity and accuracy necessary to measure...
E.J. Moyer, D.S. Sayres, G.S. Engel, J.M.St. Clair, F.N. Keutsch, N.T. Allen, J.H. Kroll, J.G. Anderson, Design considerations in high-sensitivity off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy. Phys. B 92, 467 (2008)
CT Off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy(OA-ICOS) has generated much interest because it potentially allows highly sensitive field measurements with robustoptical alignment. We discuss here design choices involvedin design of an OA-ICOS instrument and how these choicesimpact instrument sensitivity, using as our example the design of the Harvard ICOS isotope instrument, which demonstrates...
Gregory S. Engel, Walter S. Drisdell, Frank N. Keutsch, Elisabeth J. Moyer, and James G. Anderson, "Ultrasensitive near-infrared integrated cavity output spectroscopy technique for detection of CO at 1.57 μm: new sensitivity limits for absorption measurements in passive optical cavities," Appl. Opt. 45, 9221-9229 (2006)
A robust absorption spectrometer using the off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy (ICOS) technique in a passive cavity is presented. The observed sensitivity, conceptually the detection threshold for the absorption cross section (cm2) multiplied by the concentration (cm−3) and normalized by the averaging time, is measured to be 1.9×10−12 (1/cm√Hz). This high sensitivity arises from...