Quartz-enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

Overview

Journal Opt Lett

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2007 Nov 23

PMID 18033396

Citations 93

Authors

A A Kosterev

Yu A Bakhirkin

R F Curl

F K Tittel

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Abstract

A new approach to detecting a weak photoacoustic signal in a gas medium is described. Instead of a gas-filled resonant acoustic cavity, the sound energy is accumulated in a high- Q crystal element. Feasibility experiments utilizing a quartz-watch tuning fork demonstrate a sensitivity of 1.2x10(-7) cm(-1) W/ radicalHz . Potential further developments and applications of this technique are discussed.

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