Method to minimise spurious background signals in gas detectors based on correlation spectroscopy using a Fabry-Perot by bandpass filter shape optimisation
Method to minimise spurious background signals in gas detectors based on correlation spectroscopy using a Fabry-Perot by bandpass filter shape optimisation
The parasitic background signal produced by gas detectors using a Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) as a modulator is shown to be very sensitive to the infrared band pass filter characteristics. This parasitic signal is generally the feature limiting the sensitivity of such devices.
We review this problem, and provide a general approach to filter choice which minimises the background amplitude for this kind of detection system. It is shown that in general filters with very abrupt transitions from the stop to pass band are in fact undesirable, and fortuitously the optimum choice of filter leads to easily realised, low cost designs.
gas detection, background modulation, amplitude modulation, rotational lines, fabry perot interferometer.
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Vargas-Rodríguez, Everardo
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Rutt, Harvey N.
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1 November 2005
Vargas-Rodríguez, Everardo
8565869a-4312-4b09-9186-7f89409b2919
Rutt, Harvey N.
e09fa327-0c01-467a-9898-4e7f0cd715fc
Vargas-Rodríguez, Everardo and Rutt, Harvey N.
(2005)
Method to minimise spurious background signals in gas detectors based on correlation spectroscopy using a Fabry-Perot by bandpass filter shape optimisation.
Optical Engineering, 44 (10), .
(doi:10.1117/1.2065808).
Abstract
The parasitic background signal produced by gas detectors using a Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) as a modulator is shown to be very sensitive to the infrared band pass filter characteristics. This parasitic signal is generally the feature limiting the sensitivity of such devices.
We review this problem, and provide a general approach to filter choice which minimises the background amplitude for this kind of detection system. It is shown that in general filters with very abrupt transitions from the stop to pass band are in fact undesirable, and fortuitously the optimum choice of filter leads to easily realised, low cost designs.
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Published date: 1 November 2005
Keywords:
gas detection, background modulation, amplitude modulation, rotational lines, fabry perot interferometer.
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Local EPrints ID: 30216
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/30216
ISSN: 0091-3286
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Date deposited: 11 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:38
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Everardo Vargas-Rodríguez
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Harvey N. Rutt
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