Cavity-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy

Details Cavity-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy Cavity-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy

2009-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1928v1

Physics

Optics

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The sensitivity of molecular fingerprinting is dramatically improved when placing the absorbing sample in a high-finesse optical cavity, thanks to the large increase of the effective path-length. As demonstrated recently, when the equidistant lines from a laser frequency comb are simultaneously injected into the cavity over a large spectral range, multiple trace-gases may be identified within a few milliseconds. Analyzing efficiently the light transmitted through the cavity however still remains challenging. Here, a novel approach, cavity-enhanced frequency comb Fourier transform spectroscopy, fully overcomes this difficulty and measures ultrasensitive, broad-bandwidth, high-resolution spectra within a few tens of $\mu$s. It could be implemented from the Terahertz to the ultraviolet regions without any need for detector arrays. We recorded, within 18 $\mu$s, spectra of the 1.0 $\mu$m overtone bands of ammonia spanning 20 nm with 4.5 GHz resolution and a noise-equivalent-absorption at one-second-averaging per spectral element of 3 10^-12 cm^-1Hz^-1/2, thus opening a route to time-resolved spectroscopy of rapidly-evolving single-events.

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