Quantitative gas pressure measurement by molecular spectroscopy using chip-based supercontinuum in the mid-infrared

Opt Express. 2023 Oct 23;31(22):35624-35631. doi: 10.1364/OE.474392.

Abstract

We demonstrate the quantitative pressure measurement of gas molecules in the mid-infrared using chip-based supercontinuum and cepstrum analysis without additional measurements for baseline normalization. A supercontinuum generated in an on-chip waveguide made of chalcogenide glass having high nonlinearity passes through CO gas and provides a transmission spectrum. The gas absorption information is deconvoluted from the original supercontinuum spectral information containing temporal fluctuation by cepstrum analysis and extracted simply by applying a bandpass filter in the temporal domain. The gas pressure estimated from the extracted absorption information is consistent with the value measured by a pressure gauge within a difference of 1.25%, despite spectral fluctuations in the supercontinuum baseline comparable to the spectral depth of the gas absorption lines.