A mini-resonant photoacoustic sensor based on a sphere-cylinder coupled acoustic resonator for high-sensitivity trace gas sensing

Autor: Guojie Wu, Yongjia Zhang, Zhenfeng Gong, Yeming Fan, Jiawei Xing, Xue Wu, Junsheng Ma, Wei Peng, Qingxu Yu, Liang Mei
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Photoacoustics, Vol 37, Iss , Pp 100595- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2213-5979
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2024.100595
Popis: This paper reports a mini-resonant photoacoustic sensor for high-sensitivity trace gas sensing. The sensor primarily contains a sphere-cylinder coupled acoustic resonator, a cylindrical buffer chamber, and a fiber-optic acoustic sensor. The acoustic field distributions of this mini-resonant photoacoustic sensor and the conventional T-type resonant photoacoustic sensor have been carefully evaluated, showing that the first-order resonance frequency of the present mini-resonant photoacoustic sensor is reduced by nearly a half compared to that of the T-type resonant photoacoustic sensor. The volume of the developed photoacoustic cavity is only about 0.8 cm3. Trace methane is selected as the target analytical gas and a detection limit of 101 parts-per-billion at 100-s integration time has been achieved, corresponding to a normalized noise equivalent absorption (NNEA) coefficient of 1.04 × 10−8 W·cm−1·Hz−1/2. The developed mini-resonant photoacoustic sensor provides potential for high-sensitivity trace gas sensing in narrow spaces.
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