Real-time stand-off spatial detection and identification of gases and vapor using external-cavity quantum cascade laser open-path spectrometer

Ran Aharoni; Izhar Ron; Nadav Gilad; Alon Manor; Yehuda Arav; Shai Kendler

doi:10.1117/1.OE.54.6.067103

11 June 2015 Real-time stand-off spatial detection and identification of gases and vapor using external-cavity quantum cascade laser open-path spectrometer

Ran Aharoni, Izhar Ron, Nadav Gilad, Alon Manor, Yehuda Arav, Shai Kendler

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 54, Issue 6, 067103 (June 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.6.067103

Abstract

An open-path spectrometer for fast spatial detection and identification of gaseous plumes in a realistic environmental conditions is presented. Gases are released in a 500 m³ hall; detection and identification is performed by spectroscopic means—measuring the light spectral absorption (at 8 to 10 μm) by shining an external-cavity quantum cascade laser beam through the inspected volume. Real-time identification is demonstrated for gas plumes of CH₂FCF₃ (R134a) and CHF₃ at a distance of 30 m round trip with a minimum identification level of 0.2 ppm (response times of 2 to 10 s). The relatively wide spectral coverage allows a high probability of detection (PD) and low probability for a false alarm to be obtained in these realistic conditions. It is also demonstrated that the use of several lines-of-sight improves PD as gas spreading in the hall in these conditions is slow and unpredictable.

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Ran Aharoni, Izhar Ron, Nadav Gilad, Alon Manor, Yehuda Arav, and Shai Kendler "Real-time stand-off spatial detection and identification of gases and vapor using external-cavity quantum cascade laser open-path spectrometer," Optical Engineering 54(6), 067103 (11 June 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.6.067103

Published: 11 June 2015

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