Highly sensitive carbon dioxide detection based on enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy with a thulium-doped fiber amplifier

Fupeng Wang; Ze Han; Jianguo Zhang; Jinghua Wu; Qiang Wang

doi:10.3788/COL202523.023001

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 2, 023001(2025)

Highly sensitive carbon dioxide detection based on enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy with a thulium-doped fiber amplifier

Fupeng Wang^1、*, Ze Han¹, Jianguo Zhang¹, Jinghua Wu¹, and Qiang Wang²

Author Affiliations

¹Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Advanced Marine Physical Instruments and Equipment (Ministry of Education), Optics and Optoelectronics Laboratory (Qingdao Key Laboratory), Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

²State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China

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Paper Information

Category: Spectroscopy

Received: Jul. 22, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 19, 2024

Published Online: Mar. 11, 2025

The Author Email: Fupeng Wang (wfp@ouc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.023001

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.023001

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