Sensors (Jun 2024)

Micro-Ring Resonator Assisted Photothermal Spectroscopy of Water Vapor

  • Maria V. Kotlyar,
  • Jenitta Johnson Mapranathukaran,
  • Gabriele Biagi,
  • Anton Walsh,
  • Bernhard Lendl,
  • Liam O’Faolain

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113679
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 11
p. 3679

Abstract

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We demonstrated, for the first time, micro-ring resonator assisted photothermal spectroscopy measurement of a gas phase sample. The experiment used a telecoms wavelength probe laser that was coupled to a silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit using a fibre array. We excited the photothermal effect in the water vapor above the micro-ring using a 1395 nm diode laser. We measured the 1f and 2f wavelength modulation response versus excitation laser wavelength and verified the power scaling behaviour of the signal.

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