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Broadband phase spectroscopy over turbulent air paths

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Author(s)

Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Greg B. Rieker, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Jonathan Kofler, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

Abstract

Broadband atmospheric phase spectra are measured at sub-milliradian uncertainty corresponding to a 10-13 refractive index change, despite strong decoherence from atmospheric turbulence. A phase-sensitive dual-comb spectrometer acquires spectra over 233 cm-1 covering 70,000 comb teeth and multiple ro-vibrational resonances of CO2, CH4, and H2O. The CO2 concentrations retrieved from a phase and absorbance spectra agree to 0.7 ppm. In general, this system permits high-resolution measurement of the complex susceptibility that is otherwise masked by turbulence in many sensing applications.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
115
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.103901
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Keywords

atmospheric turbulences, broad band spectroscopy, green house gas, frequency comb
Spectroscopy, Optical physics and communications and Analytical chemistry

Citation

Giorgetta, F. , Rieker, G. , Baumann, E. , Swann, W. , Sinclair, L. , Kofler, J. , Coddington, I. and Newbury, N. (2015), Broadband phase spectroscopy over turbulent air paths, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.103901, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918281 (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created September 3, 2015, Updated October 12, 2021