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Infrared Degenerate Four-wave Mixing with Upconversion Detection for Quantitative Gas Sensing
Published on: March 22, 2019
Multicomponent gas detection technology of FDM and TDM based on photoacoustic spectroscopy
Abstract:
In this paper, a multicomponent gas detection system based on photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) is proposed with a combination of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM), combining a resonance photoacoustic cell and broadband microphone. A PAS gas cell with a wide frequency response bandwidth was used to achieve the FDM by selecting a specific modulation frequency of each component gas. The sawtooth wave driver current of each laser was output at a constant time interval for achieving the TDM. Compared with the laser channel control using a photoswitch, the driver current control was a simpler and more convenient means to implement TDM. The four gas components of methane (CH4), water (H2O) vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), and acetylene (C2H2) were selected as sample gases for testing the feasibility of the method. The experimental results showed that the gas detection limits of CH4, H2O vapor, CO2, and C2H2 were 75.435, 2.502, 341.960, and 4.284 ppm, respectively. In addition, the linear fittings of gas concentration were 0.99386, 0.99772, 0.98995, and 0.98955, respectively.
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