摘要 |
A gas detector device comprises at least a VCSEL source ( 34, 36 ) and at least a light sensor ( 54, 56 ) for detecting a light beam ( 50, 52 ) having passed through a sample chamber ( 48 ) containing a given gas to be detected. The sensor is a photodiode in a first embodiment and its detection signal is time derivated by an electronic derivator ( 64 ) and then provided to two lock-in amplifiers ( 84, 86 ) in order to generate a F-detection and a 2F-detection, F being the frequency of a wavelength modulation of the source, and thus to provide two corresponding measuring signals the division of which gives a precise value of the gas concentration. In a second embodiment, the source is a pyroelectric sensor which directly provides a detection signal proportional to the time derivate of the light beam incident on this sensor. In this last case, the electronic derivator is thus eliminated.
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