Abstract
A thermodynamic analysis of fundamental limitations of the photoacoustic spectroscopy is presented. A photoacoustic sensor is treated as a heat engine. The results are compared to the shot-noise limit of the absorption spectroscopy.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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