Abstract
A novel, to the best of our knowledge, noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry (NICE-OHMS) has been developed, utilizing optical feedback for laser-to-cavity locking with a common distributed-feedback diode laser. The system incorporates active control of the feedback phase and feedforward control of the laser current, allowing for consecutive laser frequency detuning by scanning a piezoelectric transducer (PZT) attached to the cavity. To enhance the fidelity of the spectroscopic signal, wavelength-modulated (wm) NICE-OHMS is implemented. Benefiting from the optical feedback, a modulation frequency of 15 kHz is achieved, surpassing the frequencies typically used in traditional NICE-OHMS setups. Then, the sub-Doppler-broadened wm-NICE-OHMS signal of acetylene at 1.53 µm is observed. A seven-fold improvement in signal to noise ratio has been demonstrated compared to NICE-OHMS alone and a limit of detection of 6.1 × 10−10cm−1 is achieved.
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Xiaobin Zhou, Gang Zhao, Yong Li, Ziwei Cheng, Kang Jiao, Bofeng Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Yanke Li, Xiaojuan Yan, Weiguang Ma, and Suotang Jia, "Optical feedback noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry for sub-Doppler-broadened detection of C2H2: publisher’s note," Opt. Lett. 49, 956-956 (2024)https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-49-4-956
24 January 2024: A typographical correction was made to the references.
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