WO2008010380A1 - Light source and gas measuring device - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a light source and a gas measuring device, and more particularly, to a light source that outputs mid-infrared light having a single spectral line width and a gas measuring device using this light source.
- FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a wavelength conversion device using a conventional quasi phase matching type wavelength conversion element.
- the wavelength converter includes a semiconductor laser 11 that outputs pumping light A having a wavelength I, a wavelength ⁇
- the laser light 12 that outputs the signal light B and the pump light A and the signal light B are combined and output.
- Optical power bra 14 and combined pump light A and signal light B are input, and converted light C of wavelength; I is output.
- a wavelength conversion element 13 made of a nonlinear optical crystal.
- Drive circuits l la and 12a and temperature control circuits l ib and 12b are connected to the semiconductor lasers 11 and 12, respectively. Further, a fiber grating 15 is inserted between the semiconductor laser 11 and the optical power plastic 14.
- the intensity of the converted light C is proportional to the product of the intensity of the pumping light A and the signal light B. Therefore, if the pumping light A is kept constant, only the wavelength is converted from the signal light B to the converted light C. be able to.
- Fig. 2 shows a phase matching curve when wavelength conversion is performed in order to obtain mid-infrared light of 3.31 ⁇ m by generating difference frequency. Since the phase matching band of the wavelength conversion element is very narrow, a semiconductor laser that oscillates in a single mode is desirable to stably output the converted light.
- Wavelengths of 1.55 xm and 1.31 xm are long wavelength bands used in the field of optical communications.
- a DFB laser diode that has a built-in diffraction grating and oscillates at a single wavelength. You can use the power S.
- the wavelength in the short wavelength band of 0.98 xm, 1.06 xm, and 0.77 zm is very difficult to produce DFB laser diodes and is less demanding.
- a laser diode is used. Therefore, a fiber grating that partially reflects only a specific wavelength is connected to the output of the semiconductor laser, and a part of the output light is reinjected into the semiconductor laser to control the oscillation wavelength to oscillate at the grating wavelength. I'm going.
- FIG. 3 shows a configuration of a conventional semiconductor laser module.
- LD semiconductor laser diode
- FBG fiber grating
- the semiconductor laser module includes a laser diode 31 and a polarization maintaining fiber 36 in which an FBG 35 is formed.
- Light emitted from the laser diode 31 is coupled to the polarization maintaining fiber 36 included in the ferrule 34 via the lenses 32 and 33.
- the laser diode 31 emits a 1064 nm band laser beam, and the reflection band of the FBG 35 is 60 pm.
- the distance between the laser diode 31 and the FBG35 is 1.2 m, a reflection peak appears repeatedly in the reflection band at a wavelength interval of 0.27 pm (this corresponds to the resonance interval of 1.2 m above).
- FIG. 4 shows an output spectrum of a light source that combines a conventional laser diode and a fiber grating.
- temporal output fluctuations appear as a discontinuous output spectrum, and the spectrum with a full width at half maximum of about 10pm is in a multimode state with as many as 35 peaks.
- FIG. 5 shows the result of measuring the output spectrum with an electric spectrum analyzer. It has a reflection peak at a position that is a multiple of about 85 MHz, corresponding to a wavelength interval of 0.27 pm.
- a gas measuring device used for measuring environmental gas needs to analyze the absorption spectrum of a gas that appears sharply in contact with P.
- the pressure width the absorption spectrum width
- the mid-infrared light source uses a pseudo-single mode mode with a half-value width of about 0.8 pm (250 MHz). If it has a line width, Therefore, the gas measuring device is configured using the wavelength converter shown in FIG. 1 as a light source.
- FIG. 7 shows a configuration of a conventional gas measurement device.
- wavelength 10
- the semiconductor laser 12 has a DF with a wavelength of 1567nm.
- the mid-infrared light of wavelength ⁇ 3314 nm, which is the converted light C emitted from the wavelength conversion element 13, is collimated by the lens 25 and passes through the filter 27 that cuts the excitation light A and the signal light B. Later, it is branched into two paths.
- One beam passes through a reference cell 20 in which no gas is sealed, and the intensity of transmitted light is measured by a light receiver 22.
- the other beam passes through a gas cell 21 filled with methane gas (9 Torr), and then the transmitted light intensity is measured by a light receiver 23.
- the measurement results of the two receivers 22 and 23 are standardized by the arithmetic unit.
- the chopper 26 is used to perform ON / OFF modulation of the beam that passes through the senoles 20 and 21.
- the lock-in amplifier 24 locks the outputs of the light receivers 22 and 23 at the modulation frequency to improve the measurement sensitivity.
- the absorption spectrum can be measured with a resolution of about 200 pm (5.6 GHz at a wavelength of 3314 nm).
- Figure 8 shows the absorption line spectrum of methane gas obtained by a conventional gas measuring device.
- the wavelength conversion device shown in FIG. 1 is a compact, robust and easy-to-use light source by using a semiconductor laser, but the resolution is not sufficient.
- the spectral line width is thick.
- a line width of approximately 2.2 pm (600 MHz) or more is required.
- in-line monitoring of gas flowing in pipelines is conceivable.
- the current line width of semiconductor lasers that output pumping light has the power to correctly evaluate the target gas absorption line width.
- the spectral line width of the converted light largely depends on the oscillation line widths of the two laser lights of the excitation light and the signal light.
- a semiconductor laser with an oscillation line width of 1 MHz or less has been put into practical use, and it is necessary to reduce the oscillation line width of a semiconductor laser that outputs pump light to 1 MHz or less. It becomes.
- the oscillation wavelength of the semiconductor laser that outputs the excitation light shifts due to the change in the use environment temperature.
- the wavelength of the converted light also shifts. Since the object to be measured is an absorption line with a fixed wavelength, such a wavelength shift greatly affects the measurement system. Therefore, it is necessary to generate the wavelength of the converted light that does not affect the change in the operating environment temperature.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a light source and a gas measuring device that realizes a single spectral line width less than or equal to a half-value width of 0.004 pm (1 MHz) and is not affected by changes in the use environment temperature. .
- Non-Patent Document 1 A. Ferrari, et al., 'Subkilohertz Fluctuations and Mode Hopping in High— Power Grating— Stabilized 980— nm Pumps, "IEEE J. of Lightwave Tech., Vol. 20, pp. 515-518 , 2002/3
- the present invention provides a first laser that generates a first laser beam, a second laser that generates a second laser beam, and the first laser Laser light and the second laser
- the second laser has a built-in diffraction grating, and the second laser is a light source including a non-linear optical crystal that inputs a single light and outputs coherent light by difference frequency generation or sum frequency generation.
- a variable wavelength light source capable of sweeping the wavelength of light, wherein the first laser includes a semiconductor laser and a fiber grating having a reflection band narrower than a resonance wavelength interval determined by an element length of the semiconductor laser.
- the first laser beam has a single spectral line width of a half width of 1 MHz or less.
- the light source further includes a monitor that measures a use environment temperature, and a temperature control circuit that controls a set temperature of the second laser based on the use environment temperature measured by the monitor. You can also.
- the light source may further include a monitor that measures the use environment temperature, and a drive circuit that controls the drive current of the second laser based on the use environment temperature measured by the monitor. it can.
- the first laser may further include a temperature control circuit that controls a set temperature of the fiber grating.
- the light source includes a wavelength meter that measures the wavelength of the first laser beam output from the first laser, and the wavelength of the first laser beam is set to a desired wavelength. And a temperature control circuit that controls a set temperature of the second laser based on the wavelength measured by the wavelength meter.
- the light source includes a wavelength meter that measures the wavelength of the first laser beam output from the first laser, and the wavelength so that the wavelength of the first laser beam is a desired wavelength.
- a drive circuit for controlling the drive current of the second laser based on the wavelength measured by the meter can be further provided.
- the gas measuring device receives the beam through the light source, means for branching the beam output from the light source, and transmitting the reference cell and the gas cell, and passing through the reference cell and the gas cell. And a light receiver.
- the gas measuring device may include a cell holding device that holds the reference cell and the gas cell.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a wavelength conversion device using a conventional quasi phase matching type wavelength conversion element
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a phase matching curve when wavelength conversion is performed by difference frequency generation.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a conventional semiconductor laser module.
- Figure 4 shows the output spectrum of a light source that combines a conventional laser diode and fiber grating.
- Fig. 5 shows the result of measuring the output spectrum with an electric spectrum analyzer.
- Fig. 6 shows the result of measuring the output spectrum with an etalon.
- Fig. 8 is a diagram showing the absorption line spectrum of methane gas obtained by a conventional gas measuring device.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a configuration of a semiconductor laser module according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the results of measuring the output spectrum with an electric spectrum analyzer.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the results of measuring the output spectrum with an etalon.
- Figure 13 shows the results of measuring the output spectrum by the delayed self-heterodyne method.
- FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a configuration of the gas measuring device according to the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 15 is an absorption line spectrum of methane gas obtained by the gas measuring device according to the first embodiment. A figure showing the kutonore,
- FIG. 16 is a diagram showing the configuration of the gas measuring device according to Example 2 of the present invention.
- FIG. 17 shows the dependence of the oscillation wavelength on the operating environment temperature in the semiconductor laser that outputs the signal light.
- FIG. 18 is a diagram showing the ambient temperature dependence of the oscillation wavelength in a semiconductor laser module that outputs excitation light.
- FIG. 19 is a diagram showing the configuration of the semiconductor laser module according to Example 3 of the present invention. 20] FIG. 20 shows the use environment temperature dependence of the oscillation wavelength in the laser diode that outputs the pumping light. Figure,
- FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a configuration of a gas measuring device according to Example 4 of the present invention.
- FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a configuration of a gas measuring device according to Example 5 of the present invention.
- FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a configuration of a gas measuring device according to Example 6 of the present invention.
- FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an absorption line spectrum of a gas obtained by a gas measuring device.
- FIG. 9 shows the configuration of a semiconductor laser module that is useful in one embodiment of the present invention.
- the semiconductor laser module includes a laser diode 51 and a polarization maintaining fiber 56 on which an FBG 55 is formed. Light emitted from the laser diode 51 is coupled to a polarization maintaining fiber 56 included in a ferrule 54 via lenses 52 and 53. The laser diode 51 is kept at a constant temperature by the Peltier element 57.
- the laser diode 51 emits a 1064 nm band laser beam.
- the element length is 1200 ⁇ m, and the resonant wavelength interval is 124 pm.
- the reflectance on the side where the polarization maintaining fiber 56 is located is 0.1% and the opposite side is 90%.
- the FBG 55 is installed in the module housing 58 together with the ferrule 54, and the distance between the laser diode 51 and the FB G55 is 2 cm.
- the reflection band of FBG55 is 60 pm, the reflectance is 20%, and the reflection band is narrower than the resonance wavelength interval determined by the element length of the laser diode 51. As a result, only one resonance mode defined by the reflection between both end faces of the laser diode 51 is selected, so that oscillation in a single mode is possible.
- FIG. 10 shows an output spectrum of the semiconductor laser module according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the spread of the spectrum is different, and this embodiment has a sharp spectrum overall.
- FIG. 11 shows the result of measuring the output spectrum with an electric spectrum analyzer.
- the optical length of the distance between the rear surface of the laser diode 51 (the side opposite to the FBG) and the FBG55 is about 2.4 cm. Therefore, repeated reflection peaks appear in the reflection band at a wavelength interval of 23pm (about 6GHz).
- the measurement band of the electrical spectrum analyzer is 0-2GHz Therefore, no mode corresponding to this reflection peak has been observed.
- this wavelength interval is narrower than the reflection band of FBG55, two modes may be selected. However, if one of the modes matches the resonance mode between both end faces of the laser diode 51, the oscillation threshold is lowered and oscillation is likely to occur. For this reason, it is possible to oscillate substantially in a single mode by sufficiently reducing the front surface (FBG side) reflectivity of the laser diode 51 to 0.1% or less.
- FIG. 12 shows the result of measuring the output spectrum with an etalon. Width at half maximum of about 64 MHz (0.
- the complete single-mode spectrum of 24pm can be observed both electrically and optically.
- FIG. 14 shows the configuration of the gas measuring device according to Example 1 of the present invention.
- the light source that combines the semiconductor laser 11 of the wavelength converter and the FBG 15 is replaced with the semiconductor laser module 71 shown in FIG.
- the semiconductor laser 12 corresponding to the first laser is a DFB laser and can sweep the wavelength.
- the semiconductor laser module 71 corresponding to the second laser has a wavelength conversion element 13 made of a nonlinear optical crystal having a single spectral line width of 250 MHz MHz or less at a half width of 50 mm and an inversion period of 50 mm. Is 28.4 ⁇ m and the conversion efficiency is 40% ZW.
- the mid-infrared light which is the converted light C emitted from the wavelength conversion element 13, is collimated by the lens 25, passes through the filter 27 that cuts the excitation light A and the signal light B, and then passes through two paths. Branched.
- One beam passes through a reference cell 20 that is not sealed with gas, and then is received.
- the transmitted light intensity is measured by the optical device 22.
- the other beam passes through a gas cell 21 filled with methane gas (9 Torr, 20 cm), and the transmitted light intensity is measured by a light receiver 23.
- the measurement results of the two receivers 22, 23 are standardized and calculated by the arithmetic unit. Note that PbSe photoconductive elements are used as the light receivers 22 and 23. In order to improve the measurement sensitivity, lock-in detection is performed in the same way as before.
- FIG. 15 shows an absorption line spectrum of methane gas obtained by the gas measuring apparatus according to Example 1.
- the wavelength is swept by lnm in lpm steps.
- the spectral structure below 20pm can be observed clearly separated. Quantitatively, it can be seen that the resolution can be improved about 25 times.
- the wavelength of conversion is the
- the resolution is limited to 20pm.
- the wavelength of the semiconductor laser 12 can be made narrower than lpm, the wavelength step of the mid-infrared light becomes finer and the resolution can be reduced.
- FIG. 16 shows the configuration of the gas measuring apparatus according to Example 2 of the present invention.
- An operating environment temperature monitor 72 is added to the gas measuring device according to Example 1 shown in FIG.
- the use environment temperature monitor 72 is connected to the drive circuit 12a and the temperature control circuit 12b, and feeds back information on the measured use environment temperature of the light source.
- FIG. 17 shows the temperature dependence of the oscillation wavelength in a semiconductor laser that outputs signal light. Showing gender.
- the oscillation wavelength of the DFB laser used as the semiconductor laser 12 1567nm is
- FIG. 18 shows the ambient temperature dependence of the oscillation wavelength in the semiconductor laser module that outputs the excitation light.
- Semiconductor laser module 71 oscillation wavelength; I 1064nm, F
- Equation 2 The shift ⁇ ⁇ is given by (Equation 2) and is estimated to be 2.04 nm on the long wavelength side. That is,
- the wavelength of the light source becomes variable on the long wavelength side of ⁇ 2.06 ⁇ m, so that it exceeds the scale range of FIG. End up. Since the absorption line spectrum of methane gas itself does not change, it is necessary to change the oscillation wavelength of the DFB laser if the operating environment temperature changes. Therefore, the wavelength of the light source is
- Operating environment temperature is 1
- the oscillation wavelength of the DFB laser It is necessary to shift the oscillation wavelength of the DFB laser to the short wavelength side by 429 pm at 5 ° C and 45 ° C. Since the temperature coefficient of the DFB laser used as the semiconductor laser 12 is 0. In mZ ° C, the set temperature of the semiconductor laser 12 is increased by 4.3 ° C. Thereby, the wavelength of the light source of a gas measuring device can be made substantially constant. If the evaluation result falls within the range of the scale, correction can be performed with reference to the absorption line wavelength spectrum unique to the gas.
- the wavelength can be set at a rate of 10 pm / mA by changing the set current. According to this method, it is possible to make fine adjustments by orders of magnitude to change the set current by 1 mA rather than changing the temperature by 1 ° C. is doing.
- FIG. 19 shows a configuration of a semiconductor laser module according to Example 3 of the present invention.
- the semiconductor laser module includes a laser diode 91, a polarization maintaining fiber 96 on which an FBG 95 is formed, and a force.
- Light emitted from the laser diode 91 is coupled to a polarization maintaining fiber 96 included in a ferrule 94 via lenses 92 and 93.
- the laser diode 91 is kept at a constant temperature by the Peltier element 97, and the FBG 95 is kept at a constant temperature by the Peltier element 99.
- the laser diode 91 emits 1064 nm band laser light.
- the FBG 95 is installed in the module housing 98 together with the ferrule 94, and the distance between the laser diode 91 and the FBG 95 is 2 cm.
- FBG95 has a reflection band of 60pm and a reflectance of 20%.
- the ambient temperature changes from 15 ° C to 45 ° C, the oscillation wavelength shifts by 0.21 nm as shown in Fig. 18. Therefore, a Peltier element 99 was mounted so that the temperature of only the FBG95 could be controlled.
- FIG. 20 shows the dependence of the oscillation wavelength on the operating environment temperature in the laser diode that outputs the excitation light.
- the change in the selection wavelength ⁇ of FBG95 is only 2pm, which can be reduced to 1/100 compared to Fig. 18.
- the absorption line spectrum can be measured in a certain wavelength range even when the use environment temperature fluctuates.
- FIG. 21 shows the configuration of the gas measuring apparatus according to Example 4 of the present invention.
- the semiconductor laser module 71 shown in FIG. 9 is replaced with the semiconductor laser module 101 shown in FIG.
- the reference cell 20 and the gas sensor 21 are held in the gas cell holding devices 111 and 112, respectively.
- Gas cell holding equipment By means of the devices 111 and 112, the cells can be exchanged without adjusting the optical axis or the like. Therefore, the absorption line spectrum of any gas can be evaluated.
- FIG. 22 shows a configuration of the gas measuring apparatus according to Example 5 of the present invention.
- a light power plastic 121 having a 10: 1 branching ratio is inserted between the semiconductor laser module 101 and the light power plastic 14.
- a wavelength meter 123 is connected to the side branched to 1/10 of the optical power plastic 121.
- a light power plug 122 having a 10: 1 branching ratio is inserted between the semiconductor laser 12 and the light power bra 14. Connect the wavelength meter 124 to the 1/10 branch of the light bra 122
- a change from a desired wavelength is detected by the wavelength meter 123 and the wavelength meter 124, and fed back to each of the drive circuit 101a, the temperature control circuits 101b and 101c, and the drive circuit 12a and the temperature control circuit 12b. .
- the drive current and the set temperature are changed.
- the output of the light source can be controlled to have a desired wavelength, and the absorption line spectrum can be measured in a certain wavelength range.
- FIG. 24 shows an absorption line spectrum of a gas measured in a certain environment.
- the results shown in Fig. 8 should be obtained, but this is because a semiconductor laser that outputs pumping light and signal light without using fluctuations in ambient temperature was used. Since a measuring instrument that can directly measure the absorption line wavelength of gas has not been developed, the absorption line wavelength of gas is corrected by referring to the HITRAN database. Wavelength force indicated by the arrow in Fig. 24 It is thought that it was. In other words, the ambient temperature is shifted by about 5 ° C, and the wavelength of the excitation light is expected to be shifted by about 30 pm. When scanning with a high-resolution laser 101 in consideration of this environmental temperature fluctuation, the result shown in FIG. 15 can be obtained by shifting the wavelength of the signal light based on Equation 4. .
- the drive current or set temperature of the semiconductor laser module 101 is changed by the drive circuit 101a or the temperature control circuits 101b and 101c in accordance with the use environment temperature.
- the wavelength ⁇ of the output light from the light source of the gas detection device can be set to a stable wavelength range and stable
- the gas measuring apparatus becomes large, but it goes without saying that the absorption spectrum can be measured by expanding the wavelength sweep width.
- the evaluation was performed at a wavelength of 3.3 / im band of methane gas.
- the transparent region is 0.35 to 5 ⁇ band. In this case, it is possible to generate converted light having an arbitrary wavelength.
- the laser diode and the FBG are coupled using two lenses.
- this can also be realized by the number of lenses and a coupling method that does not use a lens (for example, a coupling method that uses a tip ball fiber, V-groove, etc.).
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