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Liu YH, Qiao SD, Fang C et al. A highly sensitive LITES sensor based on a multi-pass cell with dense spot pattern and a novel quartz tuning fork with low frequency. Opto-Electron Adv 7, 230230 (2024). doi: 10.29026/oea.2024.230230
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A highly sensitive LITES sensor based on a multi-pass cell with dense spot pattern and a novel quartz tuning fork with low frequency
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Abstract
A highly sensitive light-induced thermoelectric spectroscopy (LITES) sensor based on a multi-pass cell (MPC) with dense spot pattern and a novel quartz tuning fork (QTF) with low resonance frequency is reported in this manuscript. An erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) was employed to amplify the output optical power so that the signal level was further enhanced. The optical path length (OPL) and the ratio of optical path length to volume (RLV) of the MPC is 37.7 m and 13.8 cm-2, respectively. A commercial QTF and a self-designed trapezoidal-tip QTF with low frequency of 9461.83 Hz were used as the detectors of the sensor, respectively. The target gas selected to test the performance of the system was acetylene (C2H2). When the optical power was constant at 1000 mW, the minimum detection limit (MDL) of the C2H2-LITES sensor can be achieved 48.3 ppb when using the commercial QTF and 24.6 ppb when using the trapezoidal-tip QTF. An improvement of the detection performance by a factor of 1.96 was achieved after replacing the commercial QTF with the trapezoidal-tip QTF. -
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Figure 1.
Structure parameter diagram of MPC and spot distribution on the surface of the incident mirror, where the green circle represents the location of the incident perforation. (a) Structure parameter diagram of MPC. (b) Simulation based on the established computational model. (c) Spot distribution obtained with a He-Ne laser.
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Figure 2.
The features of two QTFs. (a) A photograph of the QTFs. (b) Frequency response of the commercial QTF (line in green) and the trapezoidal-tip QTF (line in red).
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Figure 3.
Schematic configuration of LITES sensor based on a multi-pass cell with dense spot pattern.
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Figure 4.
System characteristics at different optical powers. (a) Peak value of 2f signal of the commercial QTF based system. Inset: 2f signal waveform. (b) Peak value of 2f signal of the trapezoidal-tip QTF based system. Inset: 2f signal waveform. (c) Noise and SNR of the system when commercial QTF and trapezoidal-tip QTF were adopted, respectively.
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Figure 5.
(a) 2f signal at different concentrations when commercial QTF was used. (b) 2f signal at different concentrations when trapezoidal-tip QTF was used. (c)The function relationship between different concentrations and the peak value of the 2f signals when commercial QTF was used. (d) The function relationship between different concentrations and the peak value of the 2f signals when trapezoidal-tip QTF was used.
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Figure 6.
Background noise of the LITES sensor system when different QTFs were used as the detector.
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Figure 7.
Allan deviation analysis. (a) Allan deviation analysis for commercial QTF based C2H2-LITES sensor. (b) Allan deviation analysis for trapezoidal-tip QTF based C2H2-LITES sensor.
