Performance of a azimuthally excited 3D-printed resonator for multi-pass spectroscopic applications

Humphries, Gordon S. and Bauer, Ralf and Lengden, Michael (2017) Performance of a azimuthally excited 3D-printed resonator for multi-pass spectroscopic applications. In: IEEE SENSORS 2017, 2017-10-29 - 2017-11-01, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

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Abstract

A design is presented for an acoustically resonant cell, based on the excitation of azimuthal resonances, to enhance the sensitivity of multi-pass photoacoustic spectroscopy. The acoustic cell is fabricated in one part using a photo-polymerization based 3D-Printing technique. Characterization of the cell performance is undertaken using calibrated concentrations of methane. The quality factor (< 76) of the cell compares favorably to existing designs based on longitudinal resonances. The minimum detectable normalized noise equivalent absorption coefficient for the cell was measured as: 3.667×10^ -10 Wcm^-1 Hz^-1/2, resulting in a minimum sensitivity for methane of 6 ppm with 700 s of averaging.

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