CW CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPY

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CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPY

AYSENUR BICER

Outline

• • • • • • What is CRD spectroscopy A simple CRDS experiment Pulsed laser CRDS versus CW-CRDS CW- CRDS experimental schema Experimental results Knife edge method

• • •

What is CRD spectroscopy

CRDS is a sensitive absorption technique in which the rate of absorption in an optical cavity is measured It has significantly high sensitivity 1.

2.

The effective absorption path length is very long The sensitivity is independent of intensity fluctuations of the light source Small fractional absorptions sub- ppm levels CO

2

(open air) 400 ppm

A Simple CRDS Experiment

A laser pulse coupled into an optical cavity The decay time is determined by measuring the time dependence of the light leaking out of the cavity By measuring the decay time the rate of absorption is determined directly providing the losses on an absolute scale

• After one pass-through the cavity the intensity of the first optical pulse (Beer-Lambert’s law)

I

0 

I laser T

2 exp(  

L

) • • The intensity of the second pulse

I

1 

I

0

R

2 exp(  2 

L

) After n complete round trip the pulse intensity behind the cavity will be

I n

I o R

2

n

exp(  2

n

L

)

Pulsed laser CRD spectroscopy

• Pulsed lasers promise Fourier transform limited line widths of the order of 100 MHz, in practice it is difficult to archive • • The length of the cavity, L, and the radius of the mirrors curvature of the mirrors should be chosen such that cavity is optically stable They are rather bulky, require massive amounts of electricity to run, and cost several hundred thousand dollars • The pulsed lasers have the advantage of broad wavelength coverage • • • •

Continuous Wave CRD spectroscopy

The main advantage of using CW laser radiation sources in any spectroscopic system is the increased resolution in the frequency domain (Trigger event ) In order to observe a ring down transits CW have to be switched of The bandwidth of these lasers is very small so can be only scanned over small wavelength regions each mode can have various allowed longitudinal modes associated with it • The frequency spacing between two successive transverse modes is usually much smaller than the spacing between two successive longitudinal modes and depends on the characteristics of the cavity (length, mirror radii)

CRD spectroscopy Using Continuous

Wave Laser

Because of narrow line width of the laser and high finesse of the cavity, spectral overlap between the laser frequency and the frequency of the cavity modes are no longer obvious • 1605.74nm- 1602.31nm infrared light region to solution He- Ne laser can be used The helium-neon laser (He-Ne) was the first gas laser. The most widely used laser wavelength is the red wavelength (632.8 nm) with a CW power output ranging from 1mW to 100mW and laser lengths varying from 10 to 100 cm.

Photodiode

He-Ne laser AOM DFB diode laser

He-Ne laser AOM 1.6~1.61µ m DFB diode laser AOM Driver Diode laser controller L Wavemeter or OSA PZT driver PD preamp Scope

First step

• • • The DFB laser has a stable wavelength that is set during manufacturing by the pitch of the grating, and can only be tuned slightly with temperature.

It has elliptical beam shape The beam pass through wave plates

Second step

• • • • • • AOM uses the acousto-optic effect to diffract and shift the frequency of light using sound waves so we can use it in CRD spectroscopy for frequency control The laser light that passes through AOM will be diffracted into multiple orders The first order diffracted beam is directed through the optical cavity Frequency of radiation from CW laser is coincident with cavity mode, power is likely build up within the optical cavity Trigger pulse is sent to AOM to switch it off The first order beam is quickly extinguish 150ns/mm

Third step

• The ring down signal registered by photodiode to oscilloscope.

C

0

C

Wavelength between 1600.566nm – 1602.534nm

8.5

0.0

0.1

8.0

0.2

7.5

0.3

7.0

6.5

1600 Experimental Data 12 CO 2 98.42% of 400ppm H 2 O 1.5% 13 CO 2 1.11% of 400ppm at atmospheric pressure and room temperature 1601 1602 Wavelength (nm) 0.4

1603 0.5

0

C

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0

1590 1595 1600 12 CO 2 98.42% 13 CO 2 1.11% at atmospheric pressure and room temperature 0.006

0.005

0.004

1605 1610 Wavelength (nm) 1615 0.003

0.002

0.001

1620 0.000

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0

1600 12 CO 2 98.42% 13 CO 2 1.11% at atmospheric pressure and room temperature 1602 1604 1606 Wavelength (nm) 1608 0.2

0.1

1610 0.0

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.14

0.12

0.10

0.08

0.06

0.04

0.02

0.00

1605.0

1605.2

12 CO 2 98.42% 13 CO 2 1.11% at atmospheric pressure and room temperature 1605.4

1605.6

Wavelength (nm) 1605.8

0.14

0.12

0.10

0.08

0.06

0.04

0.02

0.00

1606.0

10 0.0

9 -0.1

-0.2

8 -0.3

7 6 1604 8/13/2012 Measured with CRD, Yokogawa OSA (0.1nm accuracy) Calculated from Hitran(400ppm CO 2 atmosphere room temperature) 1605 1606 Wavelength (nm) -0.4

-0.5

-0.6

1607

9 8 0.0

-0.1

7 -0.2

6 -0.3

5 4 3 1604 8/14/2012 Measured with CRD, Yokogawa OSA (0.1nm accuracy) Calculated from Hitran(400ppm CO 2 atmosphere room temperature) 1605 1606 Wavelength (nm) -0.4

-0.5

-0.6

1607

10 0.0

9 8 7 0.1

1604.5

Experimental Data(wavelength measured with Yokogawa, +/- 0.2nm) 12 CO 2 98.42% of 400ppm H 2 O 1.5% 13 CO 2 1.11% of 400ppm at atmospheric pressure and room temperature 1605.0

1605.5

1606.0

Wavelength (nm) 1606.5

0.2

0.3

1607.0

R

(

z

) 

z

[ 1    

z R z

   2 ] R=∞ L=60 cm R=200cm

W 0 = 0.683 mm W 1 = 0.816 mm z R = 916.5 mm

Knife edge method

I

(

x

) 

e

 2 (

x

2 

y

2 )

w

2 

w

  

dy

      

dy

  2   

dxI

  

dxI

(

x

, (

x

, 

w

  

dy

      

dy

  2   

dxI

  

dxI

(

x

, (

x

,

y

)

y

)

y

)

y

)  0 .

16  0 .

84

• First order diffracted beam 10.54mW

10.54×0.84=8.8636mW

16.690mm

10.54×0.16=1.6864mW

17.350mm

17.350-16.690=0.660mm

• First order diffracted beam 10.42mW 10.42×0.84=8.752mW

9.9775mm

10.42×0.16=10.7950mW

10.7950mm

10.7950-9.9775=0.817mm

References

• • Berden, G., Engeln, R. (2009). Cavity ring-

down spectroccopy: Techniques and

applications. A John WILEY and Sons, Inc., Publication.

http://massey.dur.ac.uk/resources/grad_skills/ KnifeEdge.pdf