An optical gas sensing technique based on in-plane quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (IP-QEPAS) is reported. In IP-QEPAS, the laser beam is aligned in the plane of the quartz tuning fork (QTF) to increase the interaction area between the acoustic wavefront and the QTF. A custom T-shaped QTF with a prong length of 9.4mm and a resonance frequency of 9.38 kHz was designed and employed in the IP QEPAS sensor. For comparison, the traditional QEPAS sensor in which the laser beam is perpendicular to the QTF plane (PP-QEPAS) is investigated with the same operating conditions. Theoretical calculations of strain and displacement of the QTF prong were performed to support the advantage of using the IP-QEPAS technique. By selecting water vapor as the gas target, the IP-QEPAS sensor results in a signal more than 40 times higher than that measured with the PP-QEPAS configuration, confirming the potential of this approach.
In-plane quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy / Ma, Yufei; Qiao, Shunda; Patimisco, Pietro; Sampaolo, Angelo; Wang, Yao; Tittel, Frank K.; Spagnolo, Vincenzo. - In: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0003-6951. - STAMPA. - 116:6(2020). [10.1063/1.5142330]
In-plane quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy
Patimisco, Pietro;Sampaolo, Angelo;Spagnolo, Vincenzo
2020-01-01
Abstract
An optical gas sensing technique based on in-plane quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (IP-QEPAS) is reported. In IP-QEPAS, the laser beam is aligned in the plane of the quartz tuning fork (QTF) to increase the interaction area between the acoustic wavefront and the QTF. A custom T-shaped QTF with a prong length of 9.4mm and a resonance frequency of 9.38 kHz was designed and employed in the IP QEPAS sensor. For comparison, the traditional QEPAS sensor in which the laser beam is perpendicular to the QTF plane (PP-QEPAS) is investigated with the same operating conditions. Theoretical calculations of strain and displacement of the QTF prong were performed to support the advantage of using the IP-QEPAS technique. By selecting water vapor as the gas target, the IP-QEPAS sensor results in a signal more than 40 times higher than that measured with the PP-QEPAS configuration, confirming the potential of this approach.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
