Quantum-limited FM-spectroscopy with a lead-salt diode laser |
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Authors: | P Werle F Slemr M Gehrtz C Bräuchle |
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Institution: | (1) Fraunhofer-Institute for Atmospheric Environment Research, Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, D-8100 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Fed. Rep. Germany;(2) Plant Mainz Laboratories, IBM Germany, P.O. Box 2540, D-6500 Mainz, Fed. Rep. Germany;(3) Institute for Physical Chemistry, Sophienstrasse 11, D-8000 München, Fed. Rep. Germany |
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Abstract: | Ultrasensitive absorption spectroscopy of NO2 was performed with a tunable lead-salt diode laser (TDL) using a single-tone high-frequency modulation (FM) technique. With a detection bandwidth of 200 kHz, an optical density of 2.7 × 10–5 was detectable at SNR of 1. The detectable optical density could be further improved by reducing the detection bandwidth in agreement with the ![radic](/content/t219367x77570563/xxlarge8730.gif) f relationship, reaching 2.5 × 10–6 at a detection bandwidth of 1.56 kHz. Normalized to 1 Hz bandwidth, the demonstrated performance would then correspond to a detectable optical density of 5.9 × 10–8. This detection limit agrees well with the calculated quantum limited performance based on the measured laser power, modulation index, noise figure of the electronic components, and other parameters of the apparatus. These measurements and calculations show that by implementation of the FM technique, the sensitivity of the present TDL absorption spectrometers (TDLAS) can be improved by at least a factor of 10 and possibly even of 100. Such a sensitivity improvement would greatly extend the applicability of TDLAS for trace gas analysis, especially in atmospheric monitoring. |
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Keywords: | 07 65 |
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