Cole, R.
, Fredrick, C.
, Nguyen, N.
and Diddams, S.
(2023),
Precision Doppler shift measurements with a frequency comb calibrated laser heterodyne radiometer, Optics Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.500652, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=956259
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Precision Doppler shift measurements with a frequency comb calibrated laser heterodyne radiometer
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Abstract
We report precision atmospheric spectroscopy of CO2 using a laser heterodyne radiometer (LHR) calibrated with an optical frequency comb. Using the comb-calibrated LHR, we record spectra of atmospheric CO2 near 1572.33 nm with a spectral resolution of 200 MHz using sunlight as a light source. The measured CO2 spectra exhibit frequency shifts by approximately 11 MHz over the course of the five-hour measurement, and we show that these shifts are caused by Doppler effects due to wind along the spectrometer line of sight. The measured frequency shifts are in excellent agreement with an atmospheric model, and we show that our measurements track the wind-induced Doppler shifts with a relative frequency precision of 2 MHz (3 m/s) for a single 10 s measurement, improving to 100 kHz (15 cm/s) after averaging (equivalent to a fractional precision of a few parts in the 10^10). These results demonstrate that frequency-comb-calibrated LHR enables precision velocimetry that can be of use in applications ranging from climate science to astronomy.Citation
Optics Letters
Volume
48
Issue
20
Pub Type
Journals
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Keywords
Atmospheric spectroscopy, remote sensing, climate, velocimetry
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Created September 26, 2023, Updated October 2, 2023