High-speed off-axis Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy with a re-entrant configuration for spectral resolution enhancement

Autor: Daniele Romanini, Jérémie Courtois, Ajmal Khan Mohamed
Přispěvatelé: ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Châtillon], ONERA-Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique [Saint Martin d’Hères] (LIPhy), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Optics Express
Optics Express, Optical Society of America-OSA Publishing, 2010, 18, pp.4845. ⟨10.1364/OE.18.004845⟩
ISSN: 1094-4087
Popis: Monitoring of changing samples by Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) is possible using fast frequency scans of the laser and/or the cavity resonance. Mode-matched cavity excitation improves performance of fast CRDS but data-points result separated by the cavity Free Spectral Range (FSR): low pressure samples demand long cavities. We demonstrate fast CRDS with off-axis injection of a “re-entrant” resonator yielding FSR/N data-points separation. Our N = 4 short-cavity setup is found to perform well compared with other fast-CRDS implementations. Interestingly, the intrinsic chirped ringing affecting ring-down signals in mode-matched fast-CRDS disappear with off-axis injection. This is due to a fine splitting of the re-entrant-cavity degenerate groups of modes by astigmatism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE