NOISE-IMMUNE CAVITY-ENHANCED OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY

Rutkowski, Lucile

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Title

NOISE-IMMUNE CAVITY-ENHANCED OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY

Author(s)

Rutkowski, Lucile

Contributor(s)

• Foltynowicz, Aleksandra
• Johanssson, Alexandra C
• Khodabakhsh, Amir

Issue Date

23-Jun-15

Keyword(s)

Mini-symposium: High-Precision Spectroscopy

Abstract

We present noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical frequency comb spectroscopy (NICE-OFCS), a recently developed technique for sensitive, broadband, and high resolution spectroscopyfootnote{A. Khodabakhsh, C. Abd Alrahman, and A. Foltynowicz, Opt. Lett. 39, 5034-5037 (2014).}. In NICE-OFCS an optical frequency comb (OFC) is locked to a high finesse cavity and phase-modulated at a frequency precisely equal to (a multiple of) the cavity free spectral range. Since each comb line and sideband is transmitted through a separate cavity mode in exactly the same way, any residual frequency noise on the OFC relative to the cavity affects each component in an identical manner. The transmitted intensity contains a beat signal at the modulation frequency that is immune to frequency-to-amplitude noise conversion by the cavity, in a way similar to continuous wave noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS)footnote{J. Ye, L. S. Ma, and J. L. Hall, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 15, 6-15 (1998).}. The light transmitted through the cavity is detected with a fast-scanning Fourier-transform spectrometer (FTS) and the NICE-OFCS signal is obtained by fast Fourier transform of the synchronously demodulated interferogram. Our NICE-OFCS system is based on an Er:fiber femtosecond laser locked to a cavity with a finesse of $sim$9000 and a fast-scanning FTS equipped with a high-bandwidth commercial detector. We measured NICE-OFCS signals from the 3nub{1}+nub{3} overtone band of chem{CO_2} around 1.57 $mu$m and achieved absorption sensitivity 6.4$times$10$^{-11}$cm$^{-1} $Hz$^{-1/2}$ per spectral element, corresponding to a minimum detectable chem{CO_2} concentration of 25 ppb after 330 s integration timefootnote{A. Khodabakhsh, A. C. Johansson, and A. Foltynowicz, Appl. Phys. B (2015) doi:10.1007/s00340-015-6010-7.}. We will describe the principles of the technique and its technical implementation, and discuss the spectral lineshapes of the NICE-OFCS signals.

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International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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English

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