Doppler-broadened mid-infrared noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry based on an optical parametric oscillator for trace gas detection

Isak Silander; Thomas Hausmaninger; Weiguang Ma; Frans J.M. Harren; O. Axner

doi:10.1364/OL.40.000439

Doppler-broadened mid-infrared noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry based on an optical parametric oscillator for trace gas detection

Isak Silander, Thomas Hausmaninger, Weiguang Ma, Frans J.M. Harren, O. Axner

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An optical parametric oscillator based Doppler-broadened (Db) noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry (NICE-OHMS) system suitable for addressing fundamental vibrational transitions in the 3.2–3.9 μm mid-infrared (MIR) region has been realized. An Allan–Werle analysis provides a detection sensitivity of methane of 1.5×10−9 cm−1 with a 20 s integration time, which corresponds to 90 ppt of CH4 if detected at the strongest transition addressed at 40 Torr. This supersedes that of previous Db MIR NICE-OHMS demonstrations and suggests that the technique can be suitable for detection of both the environmentally important CH413 and CH3D isotopologues. It also opens up for detection of many other molecular species at ppt and sub-ppt concentration levels.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	439-442
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	40
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.000439
Publication status	Published - Feb 2015
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Doppler-broadened mid-infrared noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry based on an optical parametric oscillator for trace gas detection

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