Photoacoustic technique for determining optical absorption coefficients in solids
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 16 (1), 101-107
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.16.000101
Abstract
An investigation was made of a photoacoustic technique for determining the optical absorption coefficient in solids. A train of laser pulses was passed through the solid, and a piezoelectric transducer attached directly to the sample measured the amplitude of the elastic wave generated by the absorbed radiation. Calibration was performed at a wavelength of known absorption. The sensitivity of the technique was found to be limited to about 1 × 10−5 cm−1 in our samples due to radiation scattered onto the transducer, but the technique is capable of measuring absorption coefficients in the 10−6 cm−1 range using laser powers of about 1 W.Keywords
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