Designing a Ppb-level Fiber-optic Microphone for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Trace Gases

Abstract

We Report Our Progress on the Design of a Highly Sensitive Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Sensor using an Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometer Fiber-Optic Microphone for Detecting Parts-Per-Billion-Level Trace Gas Concentrations. a Theoretical Model is Set Up to Predict the Mechanical Behavior of the Sensor and Extended with a Mathematical Framework for Detecting Gas Concentration from the Generated Acoustic Modes in a Photoacoustic Gas Cell. a Detection Limit Up to 1.55ppb for Nitric Oxide is Predicted based on the Model for a Minimum Detectable Pressure of 2.1μpa√Hz. We Also Investigated Different Frequency Response of Two Different Gas Cells with the Finite Element Method (FEM) using COMSOL for the Fiber-Optic Acoustic Sensor.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Comments

Stanford University, Grant None

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-151066929-1

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1605-7422

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2024 Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2024

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