The technology will have direct commercial application in new instrumentation for atmospheric research. Other important commercial applications include combustion monitoring and control, and toxic gas sensing. The instrumentation design could also be adapted to measurement of hazardous or toxic gases, or other trace species, by appropriate selection of laser wavelengths. VCSELs operating in the same general wavelength region, for example, could be used for measurement of two other atmospheric species, nitrous oxide (N2O) and water vapor.
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