On-site shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy for soil investigations

M. Maiwald; K. Sowoidnich; B. Sumpf

doi:10.1117/12.2608190

3 March 2022 On-site shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy for soil investigations

M. Maiwald, K. Sowoidnich, B. Sumpf

Proceedings Volume 11978, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XIX; 1197804 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608190
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy (SERDS) has been successfully applied for on-site soil analysis. Here, a portable SERDS sensor system is developed for in-field investigations. A dual-wavelength diode laser emitting at 785 nm is integrated into an in-house realized turnkey laser system as the excitation source. For our experiments, an operating point for the two laser lines with a spectral distance of 10 cm^-1 and 36 mW excitation power at the sample is selected. The sensor system allows a rapidly alternating operation between the two excitation wavelengths in the millisecond range and thus provides background-free SERDS spectra immediately after the measurement. This enables real-time evaluations, e.g., for quick on-site decisions. On-site soil analysis is carried out with the developed portable sensor system and SERDS extracts Raman signals of soil substances from background interferences with a 15-fold improvement of the signal-to-background-noise ratio. Besides others, closely neighbored Raman signals at 1084 cm-1 of calcite and at 1095 cm^-1 of dolomite are identified and mixtures of both soil carbonates are successfully discriminated by using SERDS. The presented results demonstrate the capability of the portable SERDS sensor system for on-site soil analysis and furthermore show the potential for applications such as geological investigations.

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M. Maiwald, K. Sowoidnich, and B. Sumpf "On-site shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy for soil investigations", Proc. SPIE 11978, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XIX, 1197804 (3 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2608190

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