Abstract

A comparative study of single-and double-pulse laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) was carried out to detect the silver element in silver jewelry samples. One Nd:YAG was adopted in the experiment to generate two pulses which were set in an orthogonal configuration. The results show that, for double-laser LIBS, average diameter (3μm) of craters on the sample surface is much smaller and the intensity of silver emission signals are magnified by a factor of 40 compared with the single-pulse LIBS. Due to the superiority in high sensitivity and low energy consumption, double-pulse LIBS presents a bright application prospect in rapid on-site undamaged analysis of precious metal jewelry.

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