Journal
APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS
Volume 110, Issue 2, Pages 163-175Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-012-5024-7
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Swedish Research Council
- National Research Council
- AFOSR
- DTRA
- NIST
- NSF
Ask authors/readers for more resources
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 experimental apparatus is based on a mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by a high-power Yb:fiber laser, a high-finesse broadband cavity, and a fast-scanning Fourier transform spectrometer with autobalancing detection. The comb spectrum with a bandwidth of 200 nm centered around 3.76 mu m is simultaneously coupled to the cavity and both degrees of freedom of the comb, i.e. the repetition rate and carrier envelope offset frequency, are locked to the cavity to ensure stable transmission. The autobalancing detection scheme reduces the intensity noise by a factor of 300, and a sensitivity of 5.4x10(-9) cm(-1) Hz(-1/2) with a resolution of 800 MHz is achieved (corresponding to 6.9x10(-11) cm(-1) Hz(-1/2) per spectral element for 6000 resolved elements). This yields a noise equivalent detection limit for hydrogen peroxide of 8 parts-per-billion (ppb); in the presence of 2.8 % of water the detection limit is 130 ppb. Spectra of acetylene, methane, and nitrous oxide at atmospheric pressure are also presented, and a line-shape model is developed to simulate the experimental data.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available