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19 May 2000 Sensitive and selective monitoring of trace gases by laser photoacoustic spectroscopy
Markus W. Sigrist, Andreas M. Bohren, Irio G. Calasso, Markus Naegele, Albert Romann
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Abstract
Important features of laser photoacoustic (PA) spectrometers employed in trace gas monitoring and multicomponent gas analysis are discussed. Narrowband laser sources with wide tunability in the mid-IR range are employed. We have developed and applied different laser-based PA spectrometers. These arrangements are briefly presented and the excellent detection performance in terms of sensitivity and specificity is illustrated by various examples. A high- pressure CO2 laser, an optical parametric oscillator (OPO)-based difference frequency generation system and aline-tunable CO2 laser, implemented in a trailer for in situ measurements, are employed as laser source. Novel PA cells and microphone arrays with up to 80 individual microphones have been developed. A detection limit of 10-9 cm-1 atm-1 and a large dynamic range of seven orders of magnitude have been achieved with an extracavity multipass resonant PA cell. Examples to be presented include in situ multicomponent measurements on dynamically controlled atmospheres in fruit storage chambers or analyses of benzene-toluene-p-xylene mixtures.
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Markus W. Sigrist, Andreas M. Bohren, Irio G. Calasso, Markus Naegele, and Albert Romann "Sensitive and selective monitoring of trace gases by laser photoacoustic spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 3916, Biomedical Optoacoustics, (19 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386332
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KEYWORDS
Carbon dioxide lasers

Spectrometers

Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Absorption

Signal to noise ratio

Laser spectroscopy

Gas lasers

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