Analysis of overtone flexural modes operation in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy

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A detailed investigation of a set of custom quartz tuning forks (QTFs), operating in the fundamental and first overtone flexural modes is reported. Support losses are the dominant energy dissipation processes when the QTFs vibrate at the first overtone mode. These losses can be decreased by increasing the ratio between the prong length and its thickness. The QTFs were implemented in a quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) based sensor operating in the near-IR spectral range and water vapor was selected as the gas target. QTF flexural modes having the highest quality factor exhibit the largest QEPAS signal, demonstrating that, by optimizing the QTF prongs sizes, overtone modes can provide a higher QEPAS sensor performance with respect to using the fundamental mode.

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Tittel, Frank K., Sampaolo, Angelo, Patimisco, Pietro, et al.. "Analysis of overtone flexural modes operation in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy." Optics Express, 24, no. 6 (2016) The Optical Society: A682-A692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.00A682.

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