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Frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy

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Author(s)

David A. Long, A. Cygan, Roger D. van Zee, Mitchio Okumura, C. E. Miller, D Lisak, Joseph T. Hodges

Abstract

This Frontiers article describes frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS), an ultraprecise refinement of conventional cw-CRDS. We review the technique and highlight some recent studies which have utilized FS-CRDS to perform precision measurements of molecular transitions in the near-infrared. We also describe significant system enhancements which we are currently implementing, including Pound-Drever-Hall locking and optical frequency comb-stabilization. These improvements have the potential to reduce the uncertainty in both the absorption and frequency axes of our spectra by more than an order of magnitude. Finally, high impact applications of this capability are described which can exploit frequency axis uncertainty at the 10 kHz level and signal-to-noise ratios exceeding 200,000:1.
Citation
Chemical Physics Letters
Volume
536

Keywords

instrumentation, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, optical frequency comb, optical metrology

Citation

Long, D. , Cygan, A. , van, R. , Okumura, M. , Miller, C. , Lisak, D. and Hodges, J. (2012), Frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy, Chemical Physics Letters (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created March 21, 2012, Updated February 19, 2017