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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 39, Issue 18, Pages 3154-3164Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003154
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We report what we believe to be the first systematic study of Doppler-free, nonlinear absorption by use of cavity ringdown spectroscopy. We have developed a variant of cavity ringdown spectroscopy for the mid-infrared region between 9 and 11 mu m, exploiting the intracavity power buildup that is possible with continuous-wave lasers. The infrared source consists of a continuous-wave CO2 laser with 1-mW tunable infrared sidebands that couple into a high-finesse stable resonator. me tune the sideband frequencies to observe a saturated. Doppler-free Lamb dip in the v(7), 11(1,10) <-- 11(2,10) rovibrational transition of ethylene (C2H4). Power studies of the Lamb dip are presented to examine the intracavity effects of saturation on the Lamb-dip linewidth, the peak depth, and the broadband absorption. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America. OCIS codes: 230.5750, 300.6190, 300.6320, 300.6340, 300.6420, 300.6460.
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