Development of sensing system for carbonaceous particles using LIBS combined with LII temporal analytical technique

This report describes a new sensing system for carbonaceous particles detection using combination with two techniques of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser-induced incandescence (LII). Our research group has improved LIBS system applied for quantitative analysis. Although the basic principal of the LIBS quantitative measurements were well understood, several uncertainties still remained for complete description especially for the particle size measurement. Elemental composition and density of the particle were determined by using LIBS. Particle size measurement was accomplished with the help of LII. On the presented system, only controlling the power density of the light source allowed to switch from LIBS to LII.