Cavity-enhanced Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

Chen, Yuning

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Title

Cavity-enhanced Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

Author(s)

Chen, Yuning

Contributor(s)

• Allison, Thomas K.
• Keleher, Kevin
• Reber, Melanie Roberts

Issue Date

2014-06-16

Keyword(s)

Mini-symposium: Spectroscopy in Kinetics and Dynamics

Abstract

We introduce cavity enhanced ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy, which employs frequency combs and high-finesse optical cavities. % The schematic of apparatus is shown in Figure 1. Sub-100 fs pulses with a repetition rate of 90 MHz are generated by a home-built Ytterbium fiber laser. The amplified light has a power up to 10 W, which is used to pump an optical parametric oscillator, followed by second-harmonic generation(SHG) that converts the wavelength from near-IR to visible. A pump comb at 530 nm is separately generated by SHG. Both pump and probe combs are coupled into high-finesse cavities. Compared to the conventional transient absorption spectroscopy method, the detection sensitivity can be improved by a factor of $\left(\frac{\mathcal{F}}{\pi} \right)^2 \sim 10^5$, where $\mathcal{F}$ is the finesse of cavity. This ultrasensitive technology enables the direct all-optical dynamics study in molecular beams. We will apply the cavity enhanced ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy to investigate the dynamics of visible chromophores and then extend the wavelength to mid-IR to study vibrational dynamics of small hydrogen-bonded clusters. %\begin{wrapfigure}{I}{1\textwidth} % \centering % \includegraphics[width = 0.7\textwidth]{CETAS_details.eps} %\caption{Schematic of cavity enhanced ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy apparatus. An amplified fiber laser frequency comb is converted to visible light and pump and probe combs are coupled to high-finesse optical resonators. Transmission of the probe light is measured.} %\end{wrapfigure}

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/51230

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2014.MH14

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Copyright 2014 by the authors. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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