Photonic Sensors, Volume. 7, Issue 1, 27(2017)

A Portable Analog Lock-In Amplifier for Accurate Phase Measurement and Application in High-Precision Optical Oxygen Concentration Detection

Xi CHEN1, Jun CHANG1、*, Fupeng WANG1, Zongliang WANG2, Wei WEI1, Yuanyuan LIU1, and Zengguang QIN1
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  • 1School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
  • 2School of Physics Science and Information Technology and Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Science and Technology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, 252059, China
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    A portable analog lock-in amplifier capable of accurate phase detection is proposed in this paper. The proposed lock-in amplifier, which uses the dual-channel orthometric signals as the references to build the xy coordinate system, can detect the relative phase between the input and x-axis based on trigonometric function. The sensitivity of the phase measurement reaches 0.014 degree, and a detection precision of 0.1 degree is achieved. At the same time, the performance of the lock-in amplifier is verified in the high precision optical oxygen concentration detection. Experimental results reveal that the portable analog lock-in amplifier is accurate for phase detection applications. In the oxygen sensing experiments, 0.058% oxygen concentration resulted in 0.1 degree phase shift detected by the lock-in amplifier precisely. In addition, the lock-in amplifier is small and economical compared with the commercial lock-in equipments, so it can be easily integrated in many portable devices for industrial applications.

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    Xi CHEN, Jun CHANG, Fupeng WANG, Zongliang WANG, Wei WEI, Yuanyuan LIU, Zengguang QIN. A Portable Analog Lock-In Amplifier for Accurate Phase Measurement and Application in High-Precision Optical Oxygen Concentration Detection[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2017, 7(1): 27

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    Category: Regular

    Received: --

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 10, 2017

    The Author Email: CHANG Jun (changjun@sdu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-016-0335-7

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