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Optica, Optics Letters, 22(38), p. 4625, 2013

DOI: 10.1364/ol.38.004625

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Two-tone frequency-modulation spectroscopy in off-axis cavity

Journal article published in 2013 by P. Malara, M. F. Witinski, G. Gagliardi ORCID, P. De Natale
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Abstract

As opposed to a conventional optical resonator, an off-axis-aligned cavity is able to transmit without distortion radiation modulated at a frequency even far above the cavity bandpass. This allows us to implement a simple spectroscopic technique that combines the cavity path-length enhancement of integrated cavity output spectroscopy (ICOS) and the noise reduction associated with radio-frequency modulation (FM). An FM-ICOS spectrometer is demonstrated for the first time using a two-tone modulation technique. The performance is compared to the traditional ICOS by examining the acetylene absorption at 1543.77 nm. A signal-to-noise ratio improvement by a factor 3.5 is found with our proof-of-concept setup. Larger improvements are expected in a more optimized setup.