Method to minimize spurious background signals in gas detectors based on correlation spectroscopy using a Fabry-Pérot bandpass filter shape optimization

Everardo Vargas-Rodriguez; Harvey Nicholas Rutt

doi:10.1117/1.2065808

1 October 2005 Method to minimize spurious background signals in gas detectors based on correlation spectroscopy using a Fabry-Pérot bandpass filter shape optimization

Everardo Vargas-Rodriguez, Harvey Nicholas Rutt

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 10, 103002 (October 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2065808

Abstract

The parasitic background signal produced by gas detectors using a Fabry-Pérot interferometer (FPI) as a modulator is shown to be very sensitive to the infrared bandpass filter characteristics. This parasitic signal is generally the feature limiting the sensitivity of such devices. We review this problem, and provide a general approach to filter choice that minimizes the background amplitude for this kind of detection system. It is shown that in general filters with very abrupt transitions from the stop to passband are in fact undesirable, and fortuitously the optimum choice of filter leads to easily realized, low-cost designs.

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Everardo Vargas-Rodriguez and Harvey Nicholas Rutt "Method to minimize spurious background signals in gas detectors based on correlation spectroscopy using a Fabry-Pérot bandpass filter shape optimization," Optical Engineering 44(10), 103002 (1 October 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2065808

Published: 1 October 2005

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