All-optical Light-induced Thermoacoustic Spectroscopy for Remote and Non-contact Gas Sensing

Overview

Journal Photoacoustics

Date 2022 Sep 7

PMID 36068797

Authors

Yufeng Pan

Jinbiao Zhao

Ping Lu

Chaotan Sima

Wanjin Zhang

Lujun Fu

Deming Liu

Jiangshan Zhang

Hongpeng Wu

Lei Dong

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Abstract

All-optical light-induced thermoacoustic spectroscopy (AO-LITS) is reported for the first time for highly sensitive and selective gas sensing, in which a commercial standard quartz tuning fork (QTF) is employed as a photothermal detector. The vibration of the QTF was measured by the highly sensitive fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot (FP) interferometry (FPI) technique, instead of the piezoelectric detection in the conventional LITS. To improve the stability of the sensor system, a compact QTF-based fiber-optic FPI module is fabricated by 3D printing technique and a dual-wavelength demodulation method with the ellipse-fitting differential-cross-multiplication algorithm (DW-EF-DCM) is exploited for the FPI measurement. The all-optical detection scheme has the advantages of remote detection and immunity to electromagnetic interference. A minimum detection limit (MDL) of 422 ppb was achieved for hydrogen sulfide (HS), which was ~ 3 times lower than a conventional electrical LITS sensor system. The AO-LITS can provide a promising approach for remote and non-contact gas sensing in the whole infrared spectral region.

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