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Infrared Degenerate Four-wave Mixing with Upconversion Detection for Quantitative Gas Sensing
Published on: March 22, 2019
Detection of benzene and toluene gases using a midinfrared continuous-wave external cavity quantum cascade laser at
Ihor Sydoryk1, Alan Lim, Wolfgang Jäger
1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2V4. ihor@ece.ualberta.ca
Abstract:
We demonstrate the application of a commercially available widely tunable continuous-wave external cavity quantum cascade laser as a spectroscopic source for the simultaneous detection of multiple gases. We measured broad absorption features of benzene and toluene between 1012 and 1063 cm(-1) (9.88 and 9.41 microm) at atmospheric pressure using an astigmatic Herriott multipass cell. Our results show experimental detection limits of 0.26 and 0.41 ppm for benzene and toluene, respectively, with a 100 m path length for these two gases.
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