Novel developments in laser diode Raman spectroscopy.

摘要

This thesis presents the last developments of a laser diode Raman spectrometer for gases, gas flows and vapors, at medium-low pressures. Results are shown for atmospheric gases under STP conditions, and also gas flows from nozzles in subsonic-sonic regimes. The system is unique in that it uses a high power laser diode passively locked by an external grating cavity in Littman/Metcalf configuration, with side-band modes suppressed by 1:10−5, and a reduced bandwidth of 500MHz. The use of Rb vapor cells as notch filters with unprecedented narrow bandwidth (7 cm−1), allow to collect Stokes and a-Stokes rotational Raman spectra simultaneously. The spectrometer is used to perform studies of thermodynamic equilibrium of gas flows; further studies of samples seeded in the flow (alkali-halides) are discussed, together with potential applications for environmental and industrial monitoring.