A Clamp-Shaped Quartz Tuning Fork-Based Laser Spectroscopy Sensor. 2025

Shaoning Zheng, and Runqiu Wang, and Hanxu Ma, and Ying He, and Shunda Qiao, and Renpeng Yan, and Yufei Ma
National Key Laboratory of Laser Spatial Information, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150000, China.

A novel clamp-shaped quartz tuning fork (QTF)-based laser spectroscopy sensor is reported in this paper. The clamp-type structure was created to enhance stress and temperature gradient while optimizing the distribution of surface charges in QTF-based laser spectroscopy. Additionally, this structure eliminates the sharp right angles of the QTF, thereby minimizing performance degradation caused by residual unexpected materials. The QTF features a low resonant frequency (f0, ∼7.59 kHz) and a broad tine spacing. These characteristics contribute to an extended energy accumulation period and a simplified optical alignment process. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) and light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy (LITES) were used to validate its functionality. In QEPAS and LITES simulations, the integrated surface charge of the clamp-shaped QTF was enhanced by 2.48 and 2.96 times, respectively, compared to the widely used standard QTF with an f0 of 32.768 kHz. Experimental data indicate that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the QEPAS sensor based on the clamp-shaped QTF was improved by 1.92 times compared to the standard QTF. The signal intensity was enhanced 41.3-fold in the clamp-shaped QTF upon integration of an acoustic microresonator (AmR). When the system average time reached 1000 s, a reduction of the acetylene (C2H2) minimum detection limit (MDL) to 28.27 ppb was observed. In the LITES technique, the SNR of the clamp-shaped QTF-based sensor was improved by 2.45 times compared with the standard QTF, with an MDL of 251.4 ppb at a system average time of 100 s. Both theoretical simulations and experimental results in this paper clearly demonstrate the advantages of this clamp-shaped QTF in laser spectroscopy sensing.

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