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Signal line shapes of Fourier transform cavity-enhanced frequency modulation spectroscopy with optical frequency combs

Optics 2018-05-04 v1

Abstract

We present a thorough analysis of the signal line shapes of Fourier transform-based noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical frequency comb spectroscopy (NICE-OFCS). We discuss the signal dependence on the ratio of the modulation frequency, fm{_m}, to the molecular line width, {\Gamma}. We compare a full model of the signals and a simplified absorption-like analytical model that has high accuracy for low fm{_m}/{\Gamma} ratios and is much faster to compute. We verify the theory experimentally by measuring and fitting NICE-OFCS spectra of CO2{_2} at 1575 nm using a system based on an Er:fiber femtosecond laser and a cavity with a finesse of ~11000.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06443,
  title  = {Signal line shapes of Fourier transform cavity-enhanced frequency modulation spectroscopy with optical frequency combs},
  author = {Alexandra C. Johansson and Lucile Rutkowski and Amir Khodabakhsh and Aleksandra Foltynowicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06443},
  year   = {2018}
}