Compact CH 4 sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser
Abstract
A tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy-based methane sensor, employing a dense-pattern multi-pass gas cell and a 3.3 µm, CW, DFB, room temperature interband cascade laser (ICL), is reported. The optical integration based on an advanced folded optical path design and an efficient ICL control system with appropriate electrical power management resulted in a CH 4 sensor with a small footprint (32 x 20 x 17 cm 3) and low-power consumption (6 W). Polynomial and least-squares fit algorithms are employed to remove the baseline of the spectral scan and retrieve CH 4 concentrations, respectively. An Allan-Werle deviation analysis shows that the measurement precision can reach 1.4 ppb for a 60 s averaging time. Continuous measurements covering a seven-day period were performed to demonstrate the stability and robustness of the reported CH 4 sensor system.
- Authors:
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- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Shanxi Univ., Taiyuan (China). State Key Lab. of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Inst. of Laser Spectroscopy
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1435727
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-MAXION-00538-14
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951; TRN: US1900092
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000538; 61575113; 61275213
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 108; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
Citation Formats
Dong, Lei, Li, Chunguang, Sanchez, Nancy P., Gluszek, Aleksander K., Griffin, Robert J., and Tittel, Frank K. Compact CH4 sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4939452.
Dong, Lei, Li, Chunguang, Sanchez, Nancy P., Gluszek, Aleksander K., Griffin, Robert J., & Tittel, Frank K. Compact CH4 sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939452
Dong, Lei, Li, Chunguang, Sanchez, Nancy P., Gluszek, Aleksander K., Griffin, Robert J., and Tittel, Frank K. Tue .
"Compact CH4 sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939452. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1435727.
@article{osti_1435727,
title = {Compact CH4 sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser},
author = {Dong, Lei and Li, Chunguang and Sanchez, Nancy P. and Gluszek, Aleksander K. and Griffin, Robert J. and Tittel, Frank K.},
abstractNote = {A tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy-based methane sensor, employing a dense-pattern multi-pass gas cell and a 3.3 µm, CW, DFB, room temperature interband cascade laser (ICL), is reported. The optical integration based on an advanced folded optical path design and an efficient ICL control system with appropriate electrical power management resulted in a CH4 sensor with a small footprint (32 x 20 x 17 cm3) and low-power consumption (6 W). Polynomial and least-squares fit algorithms are employed to remove the baseline of the spectral scan and retrieve CH4 concentrations, respectively. An Allan-Werle deviation analysis shows that the measurement precision can reach 1.4 ppb for a 60 s averaging time. Continuous measurements covering a seven-day period were performed to demonstrate the stability and robustness of the reported CH4 sensor system.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4939452},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1435727},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 1,
volume = 108,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {1}
}
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Figure 1: (a) CAD image of the methane sensor core with dimensions of length (32 cm), width (20 cm), and height (17 cm). Inserted image: dense spot pattern of the ultra-compact multi-pass gas cell. (b) Schematic of a compact, low power methane sensor. ICL: interband cascade laser; L: lens; M:more »
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