Fujun Song

Measurement and analysis of water vapor inside optical components for optical fiber H2O sensing system.

Water vapor existing inside internal end-face gaps of optical components of an optical fiber H2O sensing system makes it possible to influence the measurement accuracy and stability. The influence principle has been briefly analyzed based on the structure of three main optical components: a distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD), a collimator, and a photoelectric diode (PD). With application of a differential technique, the influence of water vapor inside the DFB-LD can be removed. With reasonable recombination of the collimator and the PD in a dual-beam detection system, the influence of water vapor inside the collimator and the PDs end-face gaps has been suppressed from more than 1.57×10(-3) to as low as -2.175×10(-5) in absorbance. After H2O isolation processing water vapor inside the end-face gaps of the DFB-LD, the collimator, and the PD can be utilized as a reference to design a simple but feasible H2O sensor. As a result, good linearity with an R2 of 0.9964 has been realized in a concentration range of 39-2110 ppm during an application test, and a long-term test of the designed H2O sensor against the S8000 with a difference of 10 ppm has been achieved.

Application of wavelength scanning for measuring water vapour concentration by distributed laser diode

A technique which takes advantage of distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD) wavelength scanning to measure water vapor concentration is presented. Concentration is gotten by peak absorption rate according to Beer-Lambert law and absorption coefficient of water vapor in HITRAN database. Theoretical work on the pressure affection to light intensity absorption rate has been done, a scheme is presented to cope with the affection of overlap of two adjacent lines, it takes advantage of the peak absorption difference between 1368.597nm and 1367.862 nm, and the difference value is used to calculate the water-vapor concentration.

Water vapor absorption spectrum measurements and its application in concentration measurement

Wavelength tunable distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD) were utilized to measure line 1368.597nm and line 1367.862 nm absorption character of water vapor, based on it, water vapor concentration can be measured by peak absorption rate according to Beer-Lambert law. Besides, we observe that the overlap between the line 1368.597nm and line 1367.862 nm appears and become serious with the increase of gas pressure, this agrees well with the theoretical prediction, and the overlap cause difficulty to determine the absorption peak value, a scheme is presented to cope with the difficulty, it takes advantage of the peak absorption difference between 1368.597nm and 1367.862 nm, and the difference value is used to calculate the water-vapor concentration.