Shen Changjun

Design of a Real-time Signal Processing System for LIF Sensor

Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) sensor is one of the most sensitive approaches available for a variety of analytical applications, such as determination of nitrogen content of plant leaves, detection of chlorophyll content in water, etal. As a core instrumental requirements of real time LIF sensor, signal processing system is used to store effective processing and identification algorithms in a short time. By analyzing the working principle of LIF sensor in detail, a novel platform of signal processing system used in LIF sensor is proposed in this paper. The design solutions and hardware architecture of the system are described in this paper, include Digital Signal Processor (DSP), data transmission block, and memory block. Several steps of signal processing methods are proposed, according to the characteristic of LIF sensor. At last, an application of using the signal processing system designed in this paper for measuring chlorophyll content in plant leaves is shown.