Title : 
Sulfur dioxide detection using CW-DFB-QCL based quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy
         
        
            Author : 
Waclawek, J.P. ; Lewicki, R. ; Moser, Harald ; Brandstetter, M. ; Tittel, Frank K. ; Lendl, Bernhard
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Chem. Technol. & Analytics, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The development of a sensitive SO2 QEPAS based sensor platform employing a 140 mW CW-DFB-QCL will be reported. A detection limit of 75 ppbv (3σ) was achieved with a 1-sec averaging time for the 1380.94 cm-1 SO2 absorption line.
         
        
            Keywords : 
chemical sensors; distributed feedback lasers; measurement by laser beam; optical sensors; photoacoustic spectroscopy; quantum cascade lasers; spectrochemical analysis; sulphur compounds; CW-DFB-QCL based quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy; SO2; SO2 absorption line; detection limit; power 140 mW; sensitive SO2 QEPAS based sensor platform; sulfur dioxide detection; time 1 s; Absorption; Computer architecture; Gas lasers; Optical sensors; Quantum cascade lasers; Spectroscopy; Water;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA