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Infrared Degenerate Four-wave Mixing with Upconversion Detection for Quantitative Gas Sensing
Published on: March 22, 2019
Multi-laser sensor for simultaneous multi-gas measurements using off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy
Abstract:
An opposite two-way off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy-based multi-gas sensor is reported. More than two lasers can be employed in the sensor for simultaneous detection of different gas species. An approximately two times improvement in magnitude of the 2f signal and the signal-to-noise ratio is achieved because the concave spherical mirrors outside each end of the cavity and the narrow bandpass filters before the detectors can act as re-injection mirrors to re-inject the light into the cavity in the scheme. The performance of the sensor is demonstrated by simultaneous measurement of CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere. This Letter highlights a new, to the best of our knowledge, strategy for simultaneous multi-gas measurement in a single integrated cavity by employing as many as four lasers.
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