Abstract
Laser-based ammonia gas sensors have useful applications in many fields including combustion, atmospheric monitoring, and medical diagnostics. Calibration-free trace gas sensors require the spectroscopic parameters including linestrengths and collisional broadening coefficients to be known. Ammonia's strong ν2 vibrational band between 9 - 12 μm has the high absorption strength needed for sensing small concentrations. Within this band, the 1103.46cm-1 feature is one of the strongest and has minimal interference from CO2 and H2O. However, the six rotational transitions that make up this feature have not been studied previously with absorption spectroscopy due to their small line spacing ranging from 0.004 to 0.029cm-1. A tunable quantum cascade laser was used to accurately study these six transitions. A retrieval program was used to determine the linestrengths and collisional broadening coefficients based on Voigt and Galatry profiles. The experiments were performed with ammonia mixtures in nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide at room temperature in an optical cell. These data are going to aid in the development of quantitative ammonia sensors utilizing this strong absorption feature. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 56-68 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer |
Volume | 121 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2013 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: We would like to acknowledge the funding provided by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC).
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Spectroscopy
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Radiation