Time-resolved Fourier transform intracavity spectroscopy with a Cr2+:ZnSe laser

Nathalie Picqué (1) , Fatou Gueye (1) , Guy Guelachvili (1) , Evgeni Sorokin (2) , Irina T. Sorokina (2)

1 PPM - Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire
2 TU WIEN - Institut fur Photonik

Intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy (ICLAS) with an evacuated Cr2+: ZnSe laser is performed with a high-resolution time-resolved Fourier transform interferometer with a minimum detectable absorption coefficient equal to 4 10-9 cm-1 Hz-1/2 in the 2.5µm region. This represents the extreme limit presently reached in the infrared by ICLAS with Doppler limited resolution. The broad gain band of the crystal allows a spectral coverage at most equal to 125 nm, wide enough to see entire vibration bands. Weak CO2 bands observed up to now only in the Venus atmosphere are recorded for the first time in a laboratory. H2O detection limit down to 0.9 ppbv is also demonstrated.

Mots clés: Infrared lasers; Fourier transform spectroscopy; fts; high resolution spectroscopy; high sensitivity; broadband lasers; absorption; Lasers; solid-state; Instrumentation; measurement; and metrology; Spectrometers and spectroscopic instrumentation

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Physique Quantique [quant-ph]

Nathalie Picqué, Fatou Gueye, Guy Guelachvili, Evgeni Sorokin, Irina T. Sorokina. Time-resolved Fourier transform intracavity spectroscopy with a Cr2+:ZnSe laser. Optics Letters, 2005, 34, pp.3410-3412. ⟨hal-00116351⟩