Compact CH4 sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser

Dong, Lei; Li, Chunguang; Sanchez, Nancy P.; Gluszek, Aleksander K.; Griffin, Robert J.; Tittel, Frank K.

doi:10.1063/1.4939452

Title: Compact CH₄ sensor system based on a continuous-wave, low power consumption, room temperature interband cascade laser

Journal Article · Tue Jan 05 04:00:00 UTC 2016 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939452 · OSTI ID:1435727

Dong, Lei ^[1]; Li, Chunguang ^[2]; Sanchez, Nancy P. ^[3]; Gluszek, Aleksander K. ^[2]; Griffin, Robert J. ^[3]; Tittel, Frank K. ^[2]

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; Maxion Technologies
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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.

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Research Organization:: Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000538

OSTI ID:: 1435727

Report Number(s):: DOE-MAXION--00538-14

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 108; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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