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Ethane detection with mid-infrared hollow-core fiber photothermal spectroscopy.

We report a compact mid-infrared (MIR) photothermal spectroscopic ethane (C2H6) sensor with a hollow-core negative-curvature-fiber (HC-NCF) gas cell. The HC-NCF supports low-loss transmission of an MIR pump (3.348 µm) and a near-infrared (NIR) probe (1.55 µm). The pump and probe laser beams are launched into the gas cell from the opposite ends of the HC-NCF, allowing independent MIR pump delivery and NIR fiber-optic probe circuitry. The use of Fabry-Perot as the probe interferometer simplifies the sensor design and suppresses the common-mode noise in the lead in/out single-mode fiber. With a 14-cm-long HC-NCF, an ethane sensor system with the limit of detection (LOD) of 13 parts-per-billion (ppb) is achieved with 1 s lock-in time constant. The LOD goes down to 2.6 ppb with 410 s average time, which corresponds to noise equivalent absorption (NEA) of 2.0×10-6 and is a record for the hollow-core fiber MIR gas sensors. The system instability is 2.2% over a period of 8 hours.