Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in Asia

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an analytical detection technique based on atomic emission spectroscopy to measure the elemental composition. LIBS has been extensively studied and developed due to the non-contact, fast response, high sensitivity, real-time and multi-elemental detection features. The development and applications of LIBS technique in Asia are summarized and discussed in this review paper. The researchers in Asia work on different aspects of the LIBS study in fundamentals, data processing and modeling, applications and instrumentations. According to the current research status, the challenges, opportunities and further development of LIBS technique in Asia are also evaluated to promote LIBS research and its applications.     

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in China

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy （LIBS） has been regarded as a future superstar for chemical analysis for years due to its unique features such as little or no sample preparation, remote sensing, and fast and multi-element analysis. Chinese LIBS comnmnity is one of the most dynamically developing communities in the World. The aim of the work is to inspect what have been done in China for LIBS development and, based on the understanding of the overall status, to identify the challenges and opportunities for the future development. In this paper, the scientific contributions from Chinese LIBS comlnunity are reviewed for the following four aspects： fimdamentals, instrumentation, data processing and modeling, and applications; and the driving force of LIBS development in China is analyzed, the critical issues for successful LIBS application are discussed, and in our opinion, the potential direction to improve the technology and to realize large scale commercialization in China is proposed.     

激光诱导击穿光谱技术在气体检测中的研究综述

随着工业技术的发展,气体检测领域对在线检测仪器及检测技术的要求越来越高,气体成分在气体流动时会发生复杂变化,通常的检测手段傅里叶变换红外光谱技术(FTIR)、光腔衰荡技术(CRDS)、电化学传感等往往不能满足检测要求或仅对局部区域检测。激光诱导击穿光谱(LIBS)作为一种新兴的原子发射光谱分析技术,得到光谱分析领域研究者的广泛重视与研究。LIBS技术具备多元素同时检测、非侵入式、实时在线以及无需样品特殊制备等技术优势,已应用于固体、液体和气体的检测。在环境恶劣、干扰较大的气体制造及检测领域LIBS技术能够实时准确地进行检测。介绍了LIBS技术基本原理并描述等离子体物理特性的两个参数等离子体温度及等离子体电子数密度,针对LIBS技术在气体检测领域中的应用,从通过原子谱线强度比分析燃料的当量比、燃料混合气燃烧产物的气体组分、工业制造中作为保护气的氮气及稀有气体、温室气体和新能源气体的检测,以及与之相关的LIBS实验装置及实验方法的改进与优化等6个方面介绍了LIBS技术应用于气体检测领域的近些年国内外进展。对气体检测领域激光诱导击穿光谱研究的前景进行了展望。     

基于共振激发的激光诱导击穿光谱技术研究进展

激光诱导击穿光谱技术是一种新型的原子光谱分析技术,具有实时快速、 多元素同时分析和样品预处理简单等特点,从一出现便受到研究人员的广泛关注,但分析灵敏度差一直是限制该技术发展的重要因素。基于共振激发的激光诱导击穿光谱技术将原子荧光光谱技术和激光诱导击穿光谱技术结合,对目标元素进行选择性激发,可以大幅提高激光诱导击穿光谱技术的分析灵敏度,极大地拓展了LIBS技术在痕量元素检测领域的应用。本文综述了基于共振激发的激光诱导击穿光谱技术的研究进展,介绍了激光诱导等离子体中荧光光谱的产生过程以及基于共振激发的激光诱导击穿光谱技术的基本类型和基础原理,详细分析了烧蚀激光能量、 共振激发激光能量和波长、 烧蚀激光和共振激发激光之间的延时以及光谱采集门宽对光谱增强效果的影响,阐述了其在冶金、 环境监测、 同位素检测等领域的应用现状和存在的问题,并对其未来发展前景进行了展望。     

远程激光诱导击穿光谱技术进展

远程激光诱导击穿光谱技术(Remote LIBS)是一种利用高能激光和聚焦手段实现远距离分析物质元素组成的光谱探测技术,是远程探测的一种重要手段。本文对远程LIBS的三种探测方式(开放路径式、光纤光路式和便携式探针式)及相应的系统结构做了总结和分析。传统的开放路径式对激光器、光学系统和检测系统的性能和规格要求严格,一直是远程LIBS的研究热点;光纤光路LIBS优点主要体现在系统光学聚焦结构的简化和等离子体光的有效接收。本文综述了远程LIBS新技术的研究进展,着重分析了飞秒成丝远程LIBS技术及与Raman光谱探测相结合等远程LIBS新技术的特点和优势。新技术大大提高了探测距离,增强了物质识别能力,为扩大远程LIBS的应用做出巨大的贡献。同时,论文详细介绍了远程LIBS技术在深空探测、危害物质检测、工业冶金、文物检测修复等领域的研究现状和应用新进展。远程LIBS技术随着激光技术和光谱检测技术的发展以及对LIBS定标反演的研究,探测距离和应用范围不断扩大,检测精度和准确度也在提升。     

人工神经网络在激光诱导击穿光谱数据分析中的应用进展

激光诱导击穿光谱(LIBS)具有实时、远程、多元素同时分析的优点,近年来在工业在线分析领域逐渐受到关注,发挥着重要作用。但基于发射光谱本身的特性,LIBS存在光谱噪声、基线漂移、自吸收和重叠峰等现象;又由于环境变化、激光能量波动、基体效应、样品表面形貌等因素,造成光谱稳定性和重现性差。这些问题导致光谱信息与定性、定量分析之间呈非线性关系,限制了分析灵敏度和准确度。随着LIBS器件稳定性的逐渐改善,LIBS光谱数据分析方法日新月异,人工神经网络(ANN)能跟踪和识别非线性特性,自适应学习LIBS光谱特征,筛除干扰信息,在LIBS数据分析领域的应用得到飞速发展。介绍了LIBS原理、仪器结构和工作流程以及在LIBS光谱分析领域常见的神经网络模型,总结出2015年—2020年LIBS结合常见的ANN模型在地质、合金、有机聚合物、煤炭、土壤及生物等领域的具体应用,指出ANN在数据分析领域的超强能力可有效改进LIBS分析精度,提升光谱数据利用率,降低光谱采集环境要求。针对仍然有待突破的技术难点,展望了ANN在LIBS光谱深度信息挖掘、便携式专用型设备开发、技术联用等方面的发展前景。LIBS日趋成熟...     

激光诱导击穿光谱技术在土壤元素检测中的应用

激光诱导击穿光谱(laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy,LIBS)是一种原子发射光谱,具有对样本简单(或不需要)预处理,多元素同步、远距离测量,适用性广等独特优势。因此,LIBS分析技术被看作是未来化学分析和快速绿色分析技术领域的新兴技术。目前,土壤污染(重金属、有机污染等)检测与防治已成为现代农业和农业可持续发展关注和研究的热点问题。介绍了常见LIBS系统的结构组成以及工作原理,综述了LIBS技术对土壤中大量营养元素,重金属元素和土壤相关其他物质的研究现状和主要进展,提出了LIBS检测技术在土壤元素等方面的研究方向和发展趋势。     

Recent progress on the application of LIBS for metallurgical online analysis in China

Recent progress on the application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for metallurgical analysis particularly achieved by Chinese research community is briefly reviewed in this article. The content is mainly focused on the progress in experimental research and calibration methods toward LIBS applications for metallurgical online analysis over the past few years. Different experiment setups such as single-pulse and double-pulses LIBS schematics are introduced. Various calibration methods for different metallic samples are presented. Quantitative results reported in the literature and obtained in the analysis of various samples with different calibration methods are summarized. At the last section of this article, the difficulties of LIBS application for molten metal analysis in a furnace are discussed.     

激光诱导击穿光谱技术的研究与应用新进展

激光诱导击穿光谱技术(LIBS)是一种近年来随着激光技术和光谱检测技术的发展而兴起的对元素定性和定量分析的光谱技术。详细介绍了LIBS技术最新的研究发展情况,以及在冶金、环境污染检测、生物医学、植物学、空间探索等领域的最新应用进展。     

Review of LIBS application in nuclear fusion technology

Nuclear fusion has enormous potential to greatly affect global energy production. The next-generation tokamak ITER, which is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of energy production from fusion on a commercial scale, is under construction. Wall erosion, material transport, and fuel retention are known factors that shorten the lifetime of ITER during tokamak operation and give rise to safety issues. These factors, which must be understood and solved early in the process of fusion reactor design and development, are among the most important concerns for the community of plasma–wall interaction researchers. To date, laser techniques are among the most promising methods that can solve these open ITER issues, and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an ideal candidate for online monitoring of the walls of current and next-generation (such as ITER) fusion devices. LIBS is a widely used technique for various applications. It has been considered recently as a promising tool for analyzing plasma-facing components in fusion devices in situ. This article reviews the experiments that have been performed by many research groups to assess the feasibility of LIBS for this purpose.     

The present situation and the prospect of medical cyclotrons in China

The paper introduces the increasing applications of cyclotrons in the field of health care and some major work carried out abroad. Its emphasis is placed on the introduction to the application status and the development process of medical cyclotrons in China. The paper has assessed possible developing trends of medical cyclotrons based on the current application demand and the technological development status.

     

激光波长对煤激光诱导击穿光谱特性影响的试验研究

我国电站入炉煤种复杂多变,实时快速获取煤质成分对保障锅炉的安全、高效、低污染运行具有重大意义。将激光诱导击穿光谱(LIBS)技术应用于燃煤煤质测量,观测了不同波长激光(355,532和1 064 nm)诱导产生的等离子体时间演变特性和不同电离特性元素的谱线时间特性,对比了出现屏蔽效应时的能量阈值随激光波长的变化特征,并研究了激光波长对煤LIBS光谱特性的影响规律。结果发现：使用532 nm激光作为激发光源时,煤LIBS光谱具有最强的谱线信号强度,且出现等离子体屏蔽效应的能量阈值也较高,是一种较理想的激发光源,为LIBS技术在煤质测量领域的工业应用提供了实验依据。     

Biomedical and environmental applicationsof laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an emerging analytical technique with numerous advantages such as rapidity, multi-elemental analysis, minimal sample preparation, minimal destruction, low cost and versatility of being applied to a wide range of materials. In this paper, we report the preliminary observations we obtained using LIBS for clinical and environmental samples. Elemental analysis has been done qualitatively in human teeth samples which show encouraging results. It has also been demonstrated in this paper that LIBS can be very well utilized in field applications such as plastic waste sorting and recycling.     

Research progress in Asia on methods of processing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy data

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has attracted much attention in terms of both scientific research and industrial application. An important branch of LIBS research in Asia, the development of data processing methods for LIBS, is reviewed. First, the basic principle of LIBS and the characteristics of spectral data are briefly introduced. Next, two aspects of research on and problems with data processing methods are described: i) the basic principles of data preprocessing methods are elaborated in detail on the basis of the characteristics of spectral data; ii) the performance of data analysis methods in qualitative and quantitative analysis of LIBS is described. Finally, a direction for future development of data processing methods for LIBS is also proposed.     

激光感生击穿光谱技术(LIBS)的原理及影响因素

激光感生击穿光谱技术（LIBS）具有不需制备样品,快速分析,可进行实时控制的特点显示了巨大实际应用价值,文中介绍了激光感生击穿光谱技术（LIBS）的发展历史、研究现状及其原理。同时通过重复频率为20 Hz,最高单脉冲能量为50　mJ的纳秒激光（10 ns,1　064 nm）研究了在不同激发条件下Cr和Co薄膜产生的光谱信号。得出对于Cr膜当激发能量小于10 mJ时,信号差异不明显。但是当激发能量超过10　mJ时将产生明显的变化。分析了激光特性、延迟时间、实验装置、环境气体的种类及压力、单/双脉冲、以及采用的理论分析方法对LIBS探测结果的影响。     

Review of methodological and experimental LIBS techniques for coal analysis and their application in power plants in China

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an emerging analytical spectroscopy technique. This review presents the main recent developments in China regarding the implementation of LIBS for coal analysis. The paper mainly focuses on the progress of the past few years in the fundamentals, data pretreatment, calibration model, and experimental issues of LIBS and its application to coal analysis. Many important domestic studies focusing on coal quality analysis have been conducted. For example, a proposed novel hybrid quantification model can provide more reproducible quantitative analytical results; the model obtained the average absolute errors (AREs) of 0.42%, 0.05%, 0.07%, and 0.17% for carbon, hydrogen, volatiles, and ash, respectively, and a heat value of 0.07 MJ/kg. Atomic/ionic emission lines and molecular bands, such as CN and C₂, have been employed to generate more accurate analysis results, achieving an ARE of 0.26% and a 0.16% limit of detection (LOD) for the prediction of unburned carbon in fly ashes. Both laboratory and on-line LIBS apparatuses have been developed for field application in coal-fired power plants. We consider that both the accuracy and the repeatability of the elemental and proximate analysis of coal have increased significantly and further efforts will be devoted to realizing large-scale commercialization of coal quality analyzer in China.     

Nanophotonics in China: Overviews and highlights

The major purpose of this paper is to present a brief overview of the history and the current status of nanophotonics research in China, and to highlight some research results in the past years made by the Chinese nanophotonics communities. I will first briefly introduce the principles of nanophotonics and several of its major disciplines including photonic crystals, plasmonics and metamaterials, and related artificial acoustic structures. Then I will highlight some major progresses made by Chinese research groups in these areas with the selection made merely based on my personal taste. The aim is to let these results better known and appreciated by researchers in the Chinese communities of nanophotonics and related areas, and provide better opportunities of researchers in different areas to have more communications. I also hope that this brief introduction will help to make a better bridge to connect Chinese nanophotonics communities with the broader communities in the world.     

Applications of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometry

INTRODUCTION

When a high-powered laser beam is focused onto a small area or spot of a solid surface, the temperature of the locally heated region rises rapidly to the vaporization temperature of the solid material and an optically induced plasma, frequently called a laser-induced plasma (LIP) or laser-ablated plasma (LAP) or laser spark is formed at the surface. The plasma will be formed when the laser power density exceeds the breakdown threshold value of the solid surface. Although different materials have different breakdown thresholds, an optical plasma is produced when the laser power density exceeds several megawatts per centimeter squared (10⁶ - 10⁹ W/cm²). This plasma has been used for sampling, atomization, excitation, and ionization in analyhcal atomic spectroscopy. It has also been frequently used and proposed as a source for atomic emission spectrometry (AES). In this case the technique is most ofien referred to as laser microprobe optical emission spectrometry (LM-OES) developed by Brech and Cross [1] in early nineteen-sixties or more recently called laser-induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) [2,3]. Generally, this analyhcal technique involves two steps; the pulsed focused laser beam directed into a gaseous sample or the surface of a solid or liquid, to produce a transient LIP, followed by the measurement of a characteristic atomic emission signal related to some species present in the plasma. The LIP formed is tightly focused and consists of vaporized atoms, ions, electrons, and molecular fragments. The application of LIBS for direct spectrochemical analysis is a rapidly growing field ranging from the detection of atmospheric pollutants to monitoring of material production processes, and even to “clean-room” technology. Laser ablation techniques have also been applied for solid sample introduction into other plasma sources [4–9]. In recent years, the powerful technique of LIBS as an analytical tool has been recognized by a number of research groups, and has led to an increasing number of publications on the applications of LIBS both in the laboratory and in industry. This growing success of LIBS is a result of thorough research carried out to understand the related plasma physical processes, aided by marked improvements in laser systems and photodetector technology.     

机器视觉及其应用(系列讲座)第一讲机器视觉发展概述

近年来，机器视觉已经发展成为光电子的一个应用分支，广泛应用于微电子、PCB生产、自动驾驶、印刷、科学研究和军事等领域。机器视觉在中国的蓬勃发展，使从事机器视觉的公司和人员大量涌现。《机器视觉技术发展概述》是《机器视觉及其应用》系列讲座的综述部分，重点讨论下列内容：机器视觉的定义、发展历程与趋势、应用领域及所涉及的技术。     

指纹光谱病原菌快速检测研究进展与趋势

病原菌检测对于保障饮用水和食品安全,应对突发公共卫生事件至关重要。现行检测标准或方法存在操作耗时费力,成本高等缺陷,难以满足现代社会高时效性要求,因此开发操作简单、低成本的病原菌快检技术迫在眉睫。近年来,随着激光技术和光电探测技术的高速发展,能够快速获取微生物指纹信息的激光光谱引起了研究者的广泛关注,其中表面增强拉曼光谱（SERS）和激光诱导击穿光谱（LIBS）由于具有快速、原位无损或微损检测等优点,在病原菌快速检测领域广受关注。SERS作为一种分子振动光谱技术,是在常规拉曼（Raman）光谱中引入具有光学信号放大作用的贵金属纳米结构,实现Raman信号数量级的提升同时能够猝灭荧光,因此可以快速获取目标分子的指纹光谱信息。然而受贵金属纳米粒子的材质、形貌、大小等自身属性,以及与待测物距离等多种因素的影响,重现性仍然是SERS在细菌检测中的一大瓶颈。LIBS作为一种新兴的原子发射光谱技术,具有多元素实时检测的能力,可以快速获取样品包括微量和痕量元素在内的所有元素信息。LIBS进行细菌分类和鉴别时,为了降低基底、共存基质的元素干扰,需采集大量纯培养细菌的光谱数据,不仅增加了检测周期,同时带来定性定量难两全的局面。结合SERS和LIBS技术在病原菌快检领域的研究现状,综述了两类方法各自的优势和局限性,并对其在病原菌快速检测领域的发展趋势进行了展望,为开发基于激光光谱的病原菌快检技术提供参考意见。