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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 10, 103001(2025)

Single off-beam exciting dual-quartz-tuning-fork resonance-enhanced QEPAS trace gas sensing

Bangyu Liu^1,2, Shunda Qiao^1、*, Ying He¹, and Yufei Ma^1,2、**

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¹National Key Laboratory of Laser Spatial Information, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

²Zhengzhou Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhengzhou 450000, China

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Paper Information

Category: Spectroscopy

Received: Apr. 1, 2025

Accepted: Jun. 3, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 17, 2025

The Author Email: Shunda Qiao (shundaqiao@126.com), Yufei Ma (mayufei@hit.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.103001

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.103001

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology