title: Pulsed photothermal interferometry for spectroscopic gas detection with hollow-core optical fibre.
abstract: Gas detection with hollow-core photonic bandgap fibre (HC-PBF) and pulsed photothermal (PT) interferometry spectroscopy are studied theoretically and experimentally. A theoretical model is developed and used to compute the gas-absorption-induced temperature and phase modulation in a HC-PBF filled with low-concentration of C2H2in nitrogen. The PT phase modulation dynamics for different pulse duration, peak power and energy of pump beam are numerically modelled, which are supported by the experimental results obtained around the P(9) absorption line of C2H2at 1530.371 nm. Thermal conduction is identified as the main process responsible for the phase modulation dynamics. For a constant peak pump power level, the phase modulation is found to increase with pulse duration up to ~1.2 μs, while it increases with decreasing pulse duration for a constant pulse energy. It is theoretically possible to achieve ppb level detection of C2H2with ~1 m length HC-PBF and a pump beam with ~10 ns pulse duration and ~100 nJ pulse energy.
authors.affiliation: Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.|Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Yuechuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.|Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.|Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.|Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.|Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.|Photonic Sensors Research Laboratory, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Hoi Lut
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design / Q000379:methods; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000379:methods*; D005740:Gases / Q000737:chemistry*; D007368:Interferometry / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D055100:Optical Fibers; D017785:Photons; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D005740:Gases; D009584:Nitrogen