Acoustic Detection Module Design of a Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Sensor

Tingting Wei; Hongpeng Wu; Lei Dong; Frank K Tittel

doi:10.3390/s19051093

Acoustic Detection Module Design of a Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Sensor

Sensors (Basel). 2019 Mar 4;19(5):1093. doi: 10.3390/s19051093.

Authors

Tingting Wei^{1

2}, Hongpeng Wu^{3

4}, Lei Dong^{5

6}, Frank K Tittel⁷

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. waitingonce@163.com.
² Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. waitingonce@163.com.
³ State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. wuhp@sxu.edu.cn.
⁴ Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. wuhp@sxu.edu.cn.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. donglei@sxu.edu.cn.
⁶ Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. donglei@sxu.edu.cn.
⁷ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. fkt@rice.edu.

Abstract

This review aims to discuss the latest advancements of an acoustic detection module (ADM) based on quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS). Starting from guidelines for the design of an ADM, the ADM design philosophy is described. This is followed by a review of the earliest standard quartz tuning fork (QTF)-based ADM for laboratory applications. Subsequently, the design of industrial fiber-coupled and free-space ADMs based on a standard QTF for near-infrared and mid-infrared laser sources respectively are described. Furthermore, an overview of the latest development of a QEPAS ADM employing a custom QTF is reported. Numerous application examples of four QEPAS ADMs are described in order to demonstrate their reliability and robustness.

Keywords: acoustic detection module; quartz tuning fork; quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy.

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