Abstract

Elemental analysis of aluminum alloy samples with calibration-free laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (CF-LIBS) encounters two difficulties: the inconvenience of determining accurate temperature and electron density of the plasma and the influence of self-absorption of the observed aluminum lines. To solve this problem, target-enhanced orthogonal double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in the reheating regime combined with the one-point calibration method was proposed in this work. A mixture of copper powders and ${{\rm KHCO}_3}$ grains was pressed to a pellet and used as the target. Accurate determination of plasma temperature and electron density can be obtained using a reference target. The plasma temperature could be determined with Saha–Boltzmann plot of copper, and the electron density of the plasma could be determined according to the Stark broadening of the ${H_\alpha}$ line of hydrogen. Aluminum alloy samples were analyzed with a relative error of better than 0.02% for a major element. This approach provides a convenient way to determine the temperature and electron density of the plasma more accurately and is able to reduce the influence of self-absorption, which is helpful for realizing quantitative elemental analysis of different samples while using a calibration-free algorithm.

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