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  • Applied Spectroscopy
  • Vol. 53,
  • Issue 10,
  • pp. 1169-1176
  • (1999)

Raman Performance Characteristics of Teflon®-AF 2400 Liquid-Core Optical-Fiber Sample Cells

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Abstract

Several properties of Teflon®-AF liquid-core optical-fiber (LCOF) sample cells relevant to their utility in analytical Raman spectroscopy have been investigated. These include the nature and extent of cladding-related background and its effect on signal-to-noise ratio, and the dependence of intensity enhancement on LCOF length, core diameter, excitation wavelength, and scattering wavelength. Significant improvements in signal-to-noise ratio relative to conventional sampling techniques were demonstrated in LCOFs filled with dilute (6 X 10<sup>-2</sup> M and 6 X 10<sup>-4</sup> M) aqueous solutions of phenylalanine. A maximum intensity enhancement factor of approximately 120 was measured by using 50 mu m i.d. LCOFs filled with methanol and 532 nm excitation. Enhancement in 785 nm-excited spectra was found to vary with Raman shift in a manner consistent with self-absorption by high-overtone vibrational bands in the core liquid.

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