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HCOOH high resolution spectroscopy in the 9.18$\mu$m region

Atomic Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We report on higly accurate absolute frequency measurement against a femtosecond frequency comb of 6 saturated absorption lines of formic acid (HCOOH) with an accuracy of 1 kHz. We also report the frequency measurement of 17 other lines with an accuracy of 2 kHz. Those lines are in quasi coincidence with the 9R(36) to 9R(42) CO2_2 laser emission lines and are probed either by a CO2_2 or a widely tunable quantum cascade laser phase locked to a master CO2_2 laser. The relative stability of two HCOOH stabilized lasers is characterized by a relative Allan deviation of 4.5 1012^{-12} τ1/2\tau^{-1/2}. They give suitable frequency references for H2+_2^+ Doppler free two-photon spectroscopy.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2218,
  title  = {HCOOH high resolution spectroscopy in the 9.18$\mu$m region},
  author = {Franck Bielsa and Khelifa Djerroud and Andrei Goncharov and Albane Douillet and Tristan Valenzuela and Christophe Daussy and Laurent Hilico and Anne Amy-Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2218},
  year   = {2009}
}