The detection of carbon monoxide by the second harmonic generationof CO<sub>2</sub> laser

Yi Qu, Z-H Kang, TJ Wang, Yun Jiang, Yu. М. Andreev, J-Y Gao

Laser Physics Letters · 2006 · 10 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The technique of Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) of CO 2 laser for carbon monoxide concentration detection is investigated in this paper. A simple mechanical Q-switched CO 2 laser is used in our experiment, which works at 9.586 μm. The nonlinear optical crystal used for frequency doubling is ZnGeP 2 . Different CO concentration detections are performed and 100ppm detectable sensitivity is obtained.

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