1. Frequency comb vernier spectroscopy in the near infrared
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Zhu, F., Bounds, J., Bicer, A., Strohaber, J., Kolomenskii, A. A., Gohle, C., Amani, M., and Schuessler, H. A.
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Physics - Optics - Abstract
We perform femtosecond frequency comb vernier spectroscopy in the near infrared with a femtosecond Er doped fiber laser, a scanning high-finesse cavity and an InGaAs camera. By utilizing the properties of a frequency comb and a scanning high-finesse cavity such spectroscopy provides broad spectral bandwidth, high spectral resolution, and high detection sensitivity on a short time scale. We achieved an absorption sensitivity of ~8E-8 cm-1Hz-1/2 corresponding to a detection limit of ~70 ppbv for acetylene, with a resolution of ~1.1 GHz in single images taken in 0.5 seconds and covering a frequency range of ~5 THz. These measurements have broad applications for sensing other greenhouse gases in this fingerprint near IR region with a simple apparatus., Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures
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- 2014
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