Cavity ringdown spectroscopy at 2 $μ$m wavelength assisted by a comb-locked optical parametric oscillator

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Main Authors: D'Agostino, Vittorio, Fasci, Eugenio, Khan, Muhammad Asad, Gravina, Stefania, Gianfrani, Livio, Castrillo, Antonio
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Published: 2025
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author D'Agostino, Vittorio
Fasci, Eugenio
Khan, Muhammad Asad
Gravina, Stefania
Gianfrani, Livio
Castrillo, Antonio
author_facet D'Agostino, Vittorio
Fasci, Eugenio
Khan, Muhammad Asad
Gravina, Stefania
Gianfrani, Livio
Castrillo, Antonio
contents We report on a comb-locked cavity ring-down spectrometer developed for high-precision molecular spectroscopy at 2 $μ$m. It is based on the use of an external-cavity diode laser that is offset-frequency locked to the signal output of a singly-resonant optical parametric oscillator. This latter acts as reference laser, being locked to a self-referenced optical frequency comb, which in turn is stabilized against a GPS-disciplined Rb-clock. The performance of the spectrometer is investigated by probing a pair of N$_2$O transitions belonging to hot vibrational bands. One of these, never observed before, is included in the N$_2$O line list of the ExoMol database. Absolute center frequencies are retrieved with a 1-$σ$ global uncertainty of 108 kHz.
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spellingShingle Cavity ringdown spectroscopy at 2 $μ$m wavelength assisted by a comb-locked optical parametric oscillator
D'Agostino, Vittorio
Fasci, Eugenio
Khan, Muhammad Asad
Gravina, Stefania
Gianfrani, Livio
Castrillo, Antonio
Optics
Atomic Physics
We report on a comb-locked cavity ring-down spectrometer developed for high-precision molecular spectroscopy at 2 $μ$m. It is based on the use of an external-cavity diode laser that is offset-frequency locked to the signal output of a singly-resonant optical parametric oscillator. This latter acts as reference laser, being locked to a self-referenced optical frequency comb, which in turn is stabilized against a GPS-disciplined Rb-clock. The performance of the spectrometer is investigated by probing a pair of N$_2$O transitions belonging to hot vibrational bands. One of these, never observed before, is included in the N$_2$O line list of the ExoMol database. Absolute center frequencies are retrieved with a 1-$σ$ global uncertainty of 108 kHz.
title Cavity ringdown spectroscopy at 2 $μ$m wavelength assisted by a comb-locked optical parametric oscillator
topic Optics
Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23418