2011
DOI: 10.1063/1.3595680
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Pound-Drever-Hall-locked, frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectrometer

Abstract: We describe a high sensitivity and high spectral resolution laser absorption spectrometer based upon the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) technique. We used the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method to lock the probe laser to the high-finesse ring-down cavity. We show that the concomitant narrowing of the probe laser line width leads to dramatically increased ring-down event acquisition rates (up to 14.3 kHz), improved spectrum signal-to-noise ratios for weak O(2) absorption spectra at λ =… Show more

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“…1. The first is the PDH-locked FS-CRDS used for probing the P7 P7 transition [11,20]. The second one is the optical atomic clock which provides the optical frequency reference [12,13].…”
Section: Experimental Apparatusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1. The first is the PDH-locked FS-CRDS used for probing the P7 P7 transition [11,20]. The second one is the optical atomic clock which provides the optical frequency reference [12,13].…”
Section: Experimental Apparatusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our recent progress in CRDS [21,22] allowed to increase signal-to-noise ratio of absorption axis of the spectrum to 10 4 level [21]. At this point a factor that limits precision of line shape measurements is stability of the frequency axis which is as good as the reference laser to which the ring-down cavity is locked (currently a HeNe laser with frequency stability of 1 MHz).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Its broad and precise tunability will allow to use it for spectroscopy with sub kHz resolution. Moreover, the laser system can serve to stabilize a frequency axis for our cavity-enhanced molecular spectroscopy experiments [21,22].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the major disadvantage of this method is a strong dependence of the cavity mode frequency on mechanical instabilities causing fluctuations of the output signal [64]. Such disadvantages can be overcome using active stabilization of the cavity length [65,66], or can be minimized with the CEAS approach -cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy [67].…”
Section: Cavity Ring-down Absorption Spectroscopy (Crds)mentioning
confidence: 99%