Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm

Ren, Wei; Luo, Longqiang; Tittel, Frank K.

doi:10.1016/j.snb.2015.07.078

Title: Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm

Journal Article · Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Sensors and Actuators. B, Chemical

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2015.07.078 · OSTI ID:1435803

Ren, Wei ^[1]; Luo, Longqiang ^[2]; Tittel, Frank K. ^[2]

Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Here, we report the development of a formaldehyde (H₂CO) trace gas sensor using a continuous wave (CW), thermoelectrically-cooled (TEC), distributed-feedback interband cascade laser (DFB-ICL) at 3.6 μm. Wavelength modulation spectroscopy was used to detect the second harmonic spectra of a strong H₂CO absorption feature centered at 2778.5 cm^-1 (3599 nm) in its ν₁ fundamental vibrational band. A compact and novel multipass cell (7.6-cm physical length and 32-ml sampling volume) was implemented to achieve an effective optical path length of 3.75 m. A minimum detection limit of 6 parts per billion (ppb) at an optimum gas pressure of 200 Torr was achieved with a 1-s data acquisition time. An Allan-Werle deviation analysis was performed to investigate the long-term stability of the sensor system and a 1.5 ppb minimum detectable concentration could be achieved by averaging up to 140 s. Absorption interference eeffects from atmospheric H₂O (2%) and CH₄(5 ppm) were also analyzed in this work and proved to be insignificant for the current sensor configuration.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Science Foundation (NSF); French National Research Agency (ANR); Robert Welch Foundation; Direct Grant for Research (China); Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (China)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000538

OSTI ID:: 1435803

Report Number(s):: DOE-MAXION--00538-15; PII: S0925400515301350

Journal Information:: Sensors and Actuators. B, Chemical, Journal Name: Sensors and Actuators. B, Chemical Journal Issue: C Vol. 221; ISSN 0925-4005

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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