The paper describes a new device; laser alcohol analyzer (LAA); which eliminates the drawbacks of sobriety checking points and allows screening cars or work place for drivers and workers under the influence. The technique uses type III-V distributed feedback tunable diode laser to observe alcohol absorption in the 1.392 pm range. Ethyl alcohol or ethanol (CH/sub 3/CH/sub 2/OH) has strong absorption bands in the 2.74 /spl mu/m, 3.39 /spl mu/m, 7.2 /spl mu/m, 8.05 /spl mu/m, and 9.5 /spl mu/m regions. Strong interference from other gases such as hydrocarbons, H/sub 2/O, CO, and CO/sub 2/ limit the use of these bands. Moreover, these bands are in the mid-infrared region of the spectrum which requires cooling the laser and the detector to cryogenic temperatures that hinders their applications to sobriety checking points. The LAA sensor uses wavelength modulation absorption spectroscopy to monitor alcohol concentration in moving cars at sobriety check point without slowing the traffic (screening mode), or to determine alcohol concentration from a sample of breath extracted from the driver (testing mode).


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    Title :

    Remote sensor to detect alcohol impaired drivers


    Contributors:
    Azzazy, M. (author) / Chau, T. (author) / Wu, M. (author) / Tanbun-Ek, T. (author)


    Publication date :

    1995-01-01


    Size :

    176783 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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