Electrically tuneable micromachined fabry-perot interferometer in gas analysis

This paper describes an optical gas concentration measurement system, which is based on an electrically tuneable micromachined Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI). The operating principle of the system is NDIR Single-Beam Dual-Wavelength measurement. The FPI is tuned so that the pass band coincides with the absorption band of the measured gas; a detector records the strength of the signal getting through the measurement chamber. The pass band of the FPI is then shifted to either side of the absorption band; the detected signal constitutes the reference signal. The ratio of these two signals indicates the degree of light absorption and so the gas concentration.