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We present a new technique using a frequency comb laser and optical cavities for performing ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy with improved sensitivity. Resonantly enhancing the probe pulses, we demonstrate a sensitivity of…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-05 Melanie A. R. Reber , Yuning Chen , Thomas K. Allison

We achieve a quantum-noise-limited absorption sensitivity of 1.7/times10$^{-12}$ cm$^{-1}$ per spectral element at 400 s of acquisition time with cavity-enhanced frequency comb spectroscopy, the highest demonstrated for a comb-based…

Optical frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers have revolutionised the field of metrology and precision spectroscopy by providing precisely calibrated optical frequencies and coherent pulse trains. Amplification of the pulsed output…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Jonas Morgenweg , Itan Barmes , Kjeld S. E. Eikema

We demonstrate the first cavity-enhanced optical frequency comb spectroscopy in the mid-infrared wavelength region and report the sensitive real-time trace detection of hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a large amount of water. The…

High finesse frequency combs (HFC) with large ratio of the frequency spacing to the width of the spectral components have demonstrated remarkable results in many applications such as precision spectroscopy and metrology. We found that low…

We describe methods using frequency combs and optical resonators for recording two-dimensional (2D) ultrafast spectroscopy signals with high sensitivity. By coupling multiple frequency combs to higher-order modes of one or more optical…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-25 Thomas K. Allison

We have developed a dispersive spectrometer using a compact immersion grating for direct frequency comb spectroscopy in the long-wave infrared region of 8-10 {\mu}m. A frequency resolution of 463 MHz is achieved, which is the highest…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 Kana Iwakuni , Thinh Q. Bui , Justin Niedermeyer , Takashi Sukegawa , Jun Ye

We report on a comb-locked cavity ring-down spectrometer developed for high-precision, SI-traceable, molecular spectroscopy of air-broadened CO2 gas samples. The experimental setup relies on the use of a singly-resonant optical parametric…

Optical spectroscopic sensors are powerful tools for analysing gas mixtures in industrial and scientific applications. Whilst highly sensitive spectrometers tend to have a large footprint, miniaturized optical devices usually lack…

A femtosecond frequency comb provides a vast number of equidistantly spaced narrow band laser modes that can be simultaneously tuned and frequency calibrated with 15 digits accuracy. Our Vernier spectrometer utilizes all of theses modes in…

Microresonator-based soliton frequency combs - microcombs - have recently emerged to offer low-noise, photonic-chip sources for optical measurements. Owing to nonlinear-optical physics, microcombs can be built with various materials and…

Chip-scale optical frequency combs can provide broadband spectroscopy for diagnosing complex organic molecules. They are also promising as miniaturized laser spectrometers in applications ranging from atmospheric chemistry to geological…

Fourier transform spectroscopy based on incoherent light sources is a well-established tool in research fields from molecular spectroscopy and atmospheric monitoring to material science and biophysics. It provides broadband molecular…

A laser frequency combs is a broad spectrum composed of equidistant narrow lines. Initially invented for frequency metrology, such combs enable new approaches to spectroscopy over broad spectral bandwidths, of particular relevance to…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-01 Nathalie Picqué , Theodor W. Hänsch

Optical frequency combs have had a remarkable impact on precision spectroscopy. Enabling this technology in the x-ray domain is expected to result in wide-ranging applications, such as stringent tests of astrophysical models and quantum…

Broadband precision spectroscopy is indispensable for providing high fidelity molecular parameters for spectroscopic databases. We have recently shown that mechanical Fourier transform spectrometers based on optical frequency combs can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-09 Lucile Rutkowski , Piotr Maslowski , Alexandra C. Johansson , Amir Khodabakhsh , Aleksandra Foltynowicz

We have demonstrated a new technique that provides massively parallel comb spectroscopy sensitive specifically to ions through the combination of cavity-enhanced direct frequency comb spectroscopy with velocity modulation spectroscopy.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Laura C. Sinclair , Kevin C. Cossel , Tyler Coffey , Jun Ye , Eric A. Cornell

Fourier-transform spectroscopy is an indispensable tool for analyzing chemical samples in scientific research as well as chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Recently, its measurement speed, sensitivity, and precision have been shown to…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-06 Takuro Ideguchi , Tasuku Nakamura , Yohei Kobayashi , Keisuke Goda

We propose a new Fourier-transform spectroscopy technique based on the rotational Doppler effect. The technique offers an application for optical vortex frequency combs, where each frequency component carries a unique amount of orbital…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-28 Santeri Larnimaa , Markku Vainio

Biphoton frequency combs are promising resources for quantum networking due in large part to their compatibility with the telecommunication infrastructure. In this work, we propose a method to periodically compress broadband…