Abstract

Spectral contrast, the ability to measure frequency components of vastly different intensity, is critical in optical spectroscopy. For high spectral contrast at high spectral resolution, scanning etalons are generally used, as they allow cascading multiple dispersive elements. However, scanning instruments are inherently limited in terms of acquisition speed. Here we report a single-shot cascaded spectrometer design, in which light is dispersed along a single dispersion direction at every stage and thus can be recirculated in the same etalon multiple times. Using this design principle, we demonstrate single-shot spectral measurements at sub-gigahertz resolution and unprecedented spectral contrast ($\sim 80\,\,{\rm dB}$).

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