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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 44, Issue 8, Pages 1924-1927Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.001924
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- Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (RGC, UGC) [14206317]
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We demonstrate an ultrasensitive photoacoustic sensor using a low laser power (4 mW) and high-finesse (> 9000) optical cavity. The Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method is adopted to lock the external cavity diode laser at 1531.58 nm to the Fabry-Perot cavity. By placing a photoacoustic cell inside the 130-mm-long optical cavity, we obtain an enhancement of more than 630 times in laser power for acetylene (C2H2) detection. The present photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) sensor achieves a normalized noise equivalent absorption coefficient of 1.1 x 10(-11) cm(-1) WHz(-1/2), which is unprecedented sensitivity among all the current PAS sensors. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of merging PAS with a high-finesse cavity using PDH locking for ultrasensitive trace gas detection. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America
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