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Optical frequency comb Fourier transform cavity ring-down spectroscopy

Optics 2022-01-28 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We demonstrate broadband and sensitive cavity ring-down spectroscopy using a near infrared frequency comb and a time-resolved Fourier transform spectrometer. The cavity decays are measured simultaneously and spectrally sorted, leading to purely exponential decays for each spectral element. The absorption spectra of atmospheric water and carbon dioxide are retrieved and demonstrate the high frequency resolution and absorption precision of the technique. The experimental apparatus, the measurement concept and the data treatment are described. The technique benefits from the advantages of cavity ring-down spectroscopy, i.e. the retrieved absorption does not depend on the cavity parameters, opening up for high accuracy absorption spectroscopy entirely calibration-free.

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@article{arxiv.2201.11725,
  title  = {Optical frequency comb Fourier transform cavity ring-down spectroscopy},
  author = {Romain Dubreoucq and Lucile Rutkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11725},
  year   = {2022}
}
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