Quartz-tuning-fork enhanced photothermal spectroscopy for ultra-high sensitive trace gas detection

被引：312

作者：

Ma, Yufei ^{[1
]}

He, Ying ^{[1
]}

Tong, Yao ^{[1
]}

Yu, Xin ^{[1
]}

Tittel, Frank K. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Harbin Inst Technol, Natl Key Lab Sci & Technol Tunable Laser, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, Peoples R China

[2] Rice Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2018年 / 26卷 / 24期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

QUANTUM CASCADE LASER; PHOTOACOUSTIC-SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; SENSOR;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.26.032103

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A gas sensing method based on quartz-tuning-fork enhanced photothermal spectroscopy (QEPTS) is reported in this paper. Unlike usually used thermally sensitive elements, a sharply resonant quartz-tuning-fork with the capability of enhanced mechanical resonance was used to amplify the photothermal signal level. Acetylene (C2H2) detection was used to verify the QEPTS sensor performance. The measured results indicate a minimum detection limit (MDL) of 718 ppb and a normalized noise equivalent absorption coefficient (NNEA) of 7.63 x 10(-9) cm WA/root Hz. This performance demonstrates that QEPTS can be an ultra-high sensitive technique for gas detection and shows superiority when compared to usually used methods of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) and quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS). Furthermore, when compared to an optical detector, especially a costly mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) detector with cryogenic cooling used in TDLAS, a quartz-tuning-fork is much cheap and tiny. Besides, compared to the QEPAS technique, QEPTS is a non-contact measurement technique and therefore can be used for standoff and remote trace gas detection. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

引用

页码：32103 / 32110

页数：8

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