Selective gas sensing of CH4 and CO2 using a single tunable 1.64 μm DFB laser diode is demonstrated for the first time. By precise wavelength tuning of the diode to non-coincident absorptions of the two gases in their overlapping spectral region we can detect both using absorption spectroscopy.
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Weldon et al. (1993) studied this question.