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Bob Jopson Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, u.S. A.

Dominique Chiaroni Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France Gregory Forbes R&D Technology Inc., Australia Yannick Lizé Applied Micro Circuits Corp., u.S. A. James McGuire Jr. Synopsys Inc., u.S. A. Carlos López-Mariscal Naval Research Labs, u.S. A. Brian Monacelli the Optical Sciences Company, u.S. A. Alessandro Restelli National Institute of Standards and Technology, u.S. A. Ali Serpenguzel Koç university, Turkey Elena Silaeva Jean Monnet university, France Zuleykhan Tomova university of Maryland, u.S. A.

Infrared Filters Sensing what’s out there

Maximize;performance;for;gas;analyzers, Nondispersive;or;Fourier;transform;instruments, spectrometers and biomedical devices.

typical transmittance curve for 4-5% bandwidth

CONTRIBu TING EDITORS
Alexandre Fong
Gooch & Housego, u.S. A.
G. Groot Gregory
Synopsys Inc., u.S. A.
Bob D. Guenther
Duke university, u.S. A.
John N. Howard
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (Retired), u.S. A.
Anthony Johnson
uMBC, u.S. A.
ursula Keller
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Brian Monacelli
the Optical Sciences Company, u.S. A.
Yanina Shevchenko
Carleton university
Stephen R. Wilk
Bodkin Design and Engineering, u.S. A.

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< 0.1% to 0.3 mm
< 0.1% to 30 mm

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