(Peer-Reviewed) Highly sensitive laser spectroscopy sensing based on a novel four-prong quartz tuning fork
Runqiu Wang 王润秋 ¹ ², Shunda Qiao 乔顺达 ¹ ², Ying He 何英 ¹ ², Yufei Ma 马欲飞 ¹ ²
¹ National Key Laboratory of Laser Spatial Information, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150000, China
中国 哈尔滨 哈尔滨工业大学 激光空间信息全国重点实验室
² Zhengzhou Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhengzhou 450000, China
中国 哈尔滨 哈尔滨工业大学郑州研究院
Opto-Electronic Advances, 2025-01-22
Abstract
In this paper, a novel four-prong quartz tuning fork (QTF) was designed with enlarged deformation area, large prong gap, and low resonant frequency to improve its performance in laser spectroscopy sensing. A theoretical simulation model was established to optimize the design of the QTF structure.
In the simulation of quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) technology, the maximum stress and the surface charge density of the four-prong QTF demonstrated increases of 11.1-fold and 15.9-fold, respectively, compared to that of the standard two-prong QTF. In the simulation of light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy (LITES) technology, the surface temperature difference of the four-prong QTF was found to be 11.4 times greater than that of the standard QTF.
Experimental results indicated that the C₂H₂-QEPAS system based on this innovative design improved the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) by 4.67 times compared with the standard QTF-based system, and the SNR could increase up to 147.72 times when the four-prong QTF was equipped with its optimal acoustic micro-resonator (AmR).
When the average time of the system reached 370 s, the system achieved a MDL as low as 21 ppb. The four-prong QTF-based C₂H₂-LITES system exhibited a SNR improvement by a factor of 4.52, and a MDL of 96 ppb was obtained when the average time of the system reached 100 s. The theoretical and experimental results effectively demonstrated the superiority of the four-prong QTF in the field of laser spectroscopy sensing.
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