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Absolute frequency measurement of acetylene transitions in the region of 1540 nm

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An optical frequency comb has been used to measure the frequency of a diode laser system, locked to the P(10), P(11), P(15), P(16), P(20), and P(21) transitions in the ν1+ν3 overtone band of 13C2H2. When locked to any of these transitions, the laser frequency showed a stability of 4×10-12 in 1 s and a reproducibility of better than 1 kHz. The frequency of the reference P(16) transition was found to be P(16)=194369569383.83 kHz with an uncertainty of 0.32 kHz, based on measurements of a single system, and 2.5 kHz, based on the reproducibility of independent systems.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada

    A. Czajkowski

  2. National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada

    J.E. Bernard & A.A. Madej

  3. OFS Fitel Laboratories, 700 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 07974, USA

    R.S. Windeler

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Czajkowski, A., Bernard, J., Madej, A. et al. Absolute frequency measurement of acetylene transitions in the region of 1540 nm. Appl. Phys. B 79, 45–50 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1516-4

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