Highly Sensitive, Calibration-Free WM-DAS Method for Recovering Absorbance—Part II: Experimental Analysis

• Main Authors: Zhimin Peng, Yanjun Du, Yanjun Ding
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy; absorbance; fast-fourier transform; calibration-free; gas temperature and concentration; spectroscopic parameters
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/3/616

Following the theoretical work in Part I, in this experimental study, the robustness, temporal resolution, and the narrow scan performance of the proposed wavelength modulation-direct absorption spectroscopy (WM-DAS) method are experimentally validated in a high-temperature tube furnace. The electromagnetic and other random-frequency noises can be effectively eliminated by extracting the characteristic spectra of the light intensity. The performance of WM-DAS with modulation frequencies from 0.1 to 100 kHz and scan indexes from 3.3 to 11.1 are also investigated at atmospheric pressure. The proposed method produces accurate line profile and high SNR over 500 consistently even with a weak absorption. As for real applications, the spectral line parameters of CO at 4300.6999 cm^−1 including the collisional broadening, Dicke narrowing, and their dependence on temperature are measured. Furthermore, the high-speed measurement (1 ms) of the temperature and CO concentration of a McKenna flat flame are demonstrated.