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High-Sensitivity Detection of Water Vapor Concentration: Optimization and Performance

  • Hongtao Dang
  • , Yufei Ma*
  • , Yu Li
  • , Shaosong Wan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Xijing University

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Abstract

We demonstrate a trace gas sensor to measure the water vapor (H2O) concentration based on quartzenhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS). Here, the wavelength-modulation spectroscopy (WMS) with the second-harmonic detection is utilized. We add two metallic tubes acting as a microresonator (mR) to the quartz tuning fork (QTF) sensor design to improve the sensor signal level. After optimization of the mR dimensions and laser modulation depth, we obtain a minimum detection limit (MDL) of 5.73 ppm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)95-97
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Russian Laser Research
Volume39
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • microresonator
  • quartz tuning fork
  • quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy
  • water vapor

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