A new optical detection approach based on quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) to detect gases is developed. The new method not only employs a modulated laser to excite acoustic wave, as the general QEPAS does, but also adds an extra laser beam without modulation as the detection source to transform the prong vibration into a laser intensity change. Due to the mechanical vibration of the prongs, the intensity of the reflection laser beam is modulated. Thus, the information of the target gas (composition, concentration, etc.) is obtained by demodulating the reflected light. The achieved sensitivity of 1.13 × 10 −6 cm −1 ·W·Hz −1/2 is inter-compared to the sensitivity of the conventional QEPAS. Further developments of the new optical detection approach are also discussed in detail.