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Discovery and measurement of optically pumped far-infrared laser emissions in 13CD3OH

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We report the discovery of four laser emissions from the partially deuterated C-13 methanol isotope 13CD3OH when optically pumped with a cw carbon dioxide (CO2) laser. The wavelengths of these lines, ranging from 45.3 to 108.9 μm, are reported along with their polarizations relative to the CO2 pump laser, operating pressure, and relative intensity. A three-laser heterodyne system was then used to measure the frequencies of eight optically pumped laser emissions from this methanol isotope. These emissions range from 53.4 to 126.1 μm and are reported with fractional uncertainties up to ±2×10-7.

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  1. Instituto de Física ‘Gleb Wataghin’, Departamento de Eletrônica Quântica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, 13083-970, São Paulo, Brazil

    E.C.C. Vasconcellos

  2. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 54601, La Crosse, WI, USA

    M. Jackson, H. Hockel & M. Lauters

  3. Time and Frequency Division, 847.00, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, 80305, Boulder, CO, USA

    M.D. Allen & K.M. Evenson

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Vasconcellos, E., Jackson, M., Hockel, H. et al. Discovery and measurement of optically pumped far-infrared laser emissions in 13CD3OH. Appl. Phys. B 77, 561–562 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1345-x

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