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Precise Measurement of the Depolarization Ratio from Photoacoustic Raman Spectroscopy JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY J. Raman Spectrosc. 2007; 38: 1206–1211 Published online 14 May 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/jrs.1754 Precise measurement of the depolarization ratio from photoacoustic Raman spectroscopy Yuanqin Yu, Ke Lin, Xiaoguo Zhou, Hua Wang, Shilin Liu∗ and Xingxiao Ma Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui 230026, China Received 9 February 2007; Accepted 21 March 2007 A new method for the accurate determination of the Raman depolarization ratio is reported with an improved setup for photoacoustic Raman spectroscopy (PARS). The precise measurement is achieved by measuring the dependence of the acoustic signal intensity on the cross-angle between the polarizations of two incident laser beams. We demonstrate this sensitive and simple method with several gaseous molecules, such as CH4 and H2. The measured results of depolarization ratios agree well with the theoretical values with an upper error limit of ±0.005, which is comparable to that with polarization-resolved CARS spectroscopy. Copyright 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. KEYWORDS: depolarization ratio; precise measurement; PARS; counterpropagating laser beams; global fitting INTRODUCTION a large uncertainty, and consequently it is impossible to obtain the value with high precision. Second, unlike a The depolarization ratio is a fundamental physical plane wave with a well-defined direction of polarization, parameter in the studies of Raman spectroscopy and the scattered light collected with a lens in a finite solid molecular dynamics since it characterizes the symmetry of a angle is a spherical wave, and its polarization is relatively Raman-active vibrational mode of molecules in gaseous and complicated. Polarization measurements made in this way liquid phases and is helpful in the assignment of the Raman would bring some errors to the depolarization ratio and spectrum.1 The precise measurement of the depolarization need to be corrected.8 Third, the reflection efficiency of the ratio is also of great importance in the sense that it dispersing monochromator varies with the polarization of distinguishes different vibrational bands with close values, the scatted light, although this can be theoretically obviated and helps in the detection of small distortions of molecular using a polarization scrambler. structures in liquids and solutions caused by different Recently, Saito et al.12 reported a new method to mea- chemical environments in a quantitative manner.2–4 In recent sure the depolarization ratio, called polarization-resolved years, accurate determination of the depolarization ratio coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). With this has become essentially important in the spectroscopic and method, the depolarization ratio could be determined with dynamic studies of molecules at the vapor/liquid interface an unprecedented accuracy of š0.002. However, unlike in the using the sum frequency generation (SFG) technique.5–7 spontaneous Raman spectrum, a nonresonant background Traditionally, the depolarization ratio is obtained from usually exists in the CARS spectrum, since the third-order the conventional spontaneous Raman spectroscopy, and is nonlinear susceptibility tensor 3 consists of a resonant part, measured as the ratio of scattered light intensities I? to I , // and a nonresonant part which varies slowly with the Raman D I? I//,whereI? and I// are intensities of the scattered shift. In CARS spectroscopy, the depolarization ratio at the light with polarizations perpendicular and parallel to the Raman resonant position is defined as12–14 polarization plane of the incident laser beam, respectively. However, the precision of the depolarization ratio measured R R D 2112/1111 1 in this way is generally low.1,8–11 First, in the case of R R measuring small , the intensity I? is quite weak compared where 2112 and 1111 are the resonant parts of the third-order 3 3 to the intensity I//, and the measurement of I? usually has nonlinear susceptibility tensor elements of 2112 and 1111, respectively. Saito et al.12 deduced that the depolarization ŁCorrespondence to: Shilin Liu, Hefei National Laboratory for ratio in polarization-controlled CARS spectroscopy could be Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, obtained from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui 230026, China. E-mail: [email protected] D tan R/ tan Â2 Copyright 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Measurement of depolarization ratio from photoacoustic Raman spectroscopy 1207 where  is the cross-angle between polarizations of the PARS has been widely applied to gaseous trace component two incident laser beams, i.e. the pump laser and the analysis and molecular dynamic processes.19–23 Stokes laser, and R is the cross-angle between polarizations The basic theory of PARS has already been described of the pump beam and the resonant part of the CARS elsewhere.20,21 Here, only a brief description of PARS signal. For a certain Raman band and a prefixed angle Â, is introduced, and the relation of PARS intensity with the angle R was measured with a polarization analyzer, polarization cross-angle of the two laser beams will be shown. and the depolarization ratio could be determined from For parallely polarized pump and Stokes laser beams (both Eqn (2). The key step of this method is to eliminate the linearly polarized plane waves), the PARS signal intensity interference from the nonresonant background in the CARS can be expressed as spectrum. By simulating the CARS spectra at different angles of the polarization analyzer, the dependence of the I / NL//IPIS 3 Raman resonance signal intensity on the analyzer angle was obtained, and the angle R corresponding to the analyzer where N is the molecular number density, IP and IS are the angle at which the Raman resonance signal vanished was intensities of pump and Stokes laser beams, respectively, precisely determined. The accuracy of the depolarization // is the Raman cross section for parallel polarization of ratio thus measured was much higher than that with the two laser beams and L is the effective interaction length spontaneous Raman spectroscopy. Depolarization ratios of between sample and two laser beams. Similarly, when the several molecules have been precisely measured with this polarizations of two laser beams are orthogonal to each other, method.12,15 the PARS signal intensity can be written as In this paper, we introduce another nonlinear spectro- scopic method to measure the depolarization ratio, called I / NL?IPIS 4 polarized photoacoustic Raman spectroscopy (PARS). The accuracy with this method is comparable to that with the where ? is the Raman cross section for orthogonal polarization-resolved CARS spectroscopy. In addition, the polarization of the two laser beams. operation procedure of this method is simple and straight- Since the intrinsic property of stimulated Raman scatter- forward, and the spectral sensitivity is relatively high. ing is the same as that of spontaneous Raman scattering, the ratio between cross-sections ? and // is also the depolar- ization ratio, i.e. D ?///. When the polarizations of two DEPOLARIZATION RATIO FROM POLARIZED laser beams cross with a certain angle Â, the contributions of PARS parallel and orthogonal polarization configurations give the In PARS spectroscopy, the photoacoustic signal originates total PARS signal intensity, from a stimulated Raman scattering process by the pump and Stokes laser beams. When the frequency difference I / NL//IP,//IS C ?IP,?IS between the two spatially overlapped laser beams is in 2 2 D NL//IPIS cos  C ?IPIS sin  5 resonance with a Raman-active vibrational transition, a stim- ulated Raman scattering process occurs, and the molecules It can also be written in an alternative form, are populated from the ground vibrational level to an excited 2 2 vibrational level. The molecular population at this excited I / NL//IPIScos  C sin  6 level will be reduced by the subsequent collision-induced vibrational relaxation. Consequently, the translational tem- where the relation D ?/// isused.Itisevidentthat perature is increased in the local interaction area, and an the PARS signal intensity is periodically dependent on the excess pressure wave is generated and then detected by a cross-angle  between the polarizations of two laser beams. sensitive microphone or a piezoelectric transducer as the By measuring the I– curve, the depolarization ratio can photoacoustic signal. The PARS spectrum is obtained by be obtained from a global fitting with Eqn (6). As will be monitoring the photoacoustic signal intensity with the vari- seen in the following section, the depolarization ratio can be ation of the frequency difference between the pump and measured precisely with this method. Stokes laser beams. The sensitivity of the PARS technique is greatly increased in contrast to the direct measurement IMPROVED EXPERIMENTAL SETUP OF PARS of spontaneous Raman scattering photons. This technique was invented originally by Barrett and Berry to measure the The experimental setup is shown schematically in Fig. 1, Raman spectrum of gaseous methane.16 Almost simultane- which is similar to that described previously,24 but a ously, Patel and Tam developed and successfully applied few modifications were made for the purpose of the this method to experiments in liquid and solid phases using depolarization ratio measurement. The second-harmonic a piezoelectric transducer as the acoustic detector instead of output from a pulsed Nd : YAG laser (Spectra Physics, Pro- a microphone used in the gaseous phase.17,18 From then on, 190-10, 532.1nm, linewidth 1.0cm1, pulse width 10 ns) is Copyright 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. J. Raman Spectrosc. 2007; 38: 1206–1211 DOI: 10.1002/jrs 1208 Y. Yu et al. Figure 2. A typical global fitting of the I– curve with Eqn (6) to determine the depolarization ratio. The example here is obtained at the Q-branch of the 1 band of CH4.The theoretical depolarization ratio is 0, and the experimentally determined value is 0.002 within an error of š0.002.
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