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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 28, Issue 13, Pages 19074-19084Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.393292
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- H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (project OPTAPHI) [860808]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61575113, 61622503, 61805132]
- Innovative Talents of Higher Education Institutions of Shanxi
- THORLABS GmbH (Polysense Lab)
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [860808] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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We report on a study of light-induced thermo-elastic effects occurring in quartz tuning forks (QTFs) when exploited as near-infrared light detectors in a tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy sensor setup. Our analysis showed that when the residual laser beam transmitted by the absorption cell is focused on the QTF surface area where the maximum strain field occurs, the QTF signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is proportional to the strain itself and to the QTF accumulation time. The SNR was also evaluated when the pressure surrounding the QTF was lowered from 700 Torr to 5 Torr, resulting in an enhancement factor of similar to 4 at the lowest pressure. At 5 torr, the QTF employed as light detector showed an SNR similar to 6.5 times higher than that obtained by using a commercially available amplified photodetector. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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