Simulation of characteristics of optical gas sensors based on diode optopairs operating in the mid-IR spectral range |
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Authors: | S E Aleksandrov G A Gavrilov A A Kapralov B A Matveev G Yu Sotnikova and M A Remennyi |
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Affiliation: | 1.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,St. Petersburg,Russia |
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Abstract: | An analytic model is proposed for an optical gas sensor based on diode optopairs, which takes into account the line spectral
structure of gases being analyzed, as well as peculiarities of spectral characteristics of immersion-type light-emitting diodes
and photodiodes operating in the mid-IR spectral range. The model makes it possible to calculate the transfer characteristic
of the sensor and to estimate the measurement error for gas analyzers operating on the basis of these sensors. The experiments
demonstrate bright prospects of application of sensors based on immersion-type diode optopairs in small-size gas analyzers;
the expected values of the threshold sensitivity of a CO2 sensor at a level of 10 ppm and the absolute error of measurements below 0.1% (reduced error is 1%) in a range of up to 10
vol % at a speed of up to 10 counts per second exceed the parameters of available portable CO2 gas analyzers. The validity of the model is confirmed by conformity between the calculated data and the experimental results
obtained on a prototype of a CO2 diode sensor. |
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