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High stability in near-infrared spectroscopy: part 1, adapting clock techniques to optical feedback

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Optical feedback is an efficient way to narrow and stabilise semi-conductor lasers. As a step forward for ultra-stable, yet highly tunable sources, we developed a new prototype of a three-mirror V-shaped optical cavity (VCOF). It is made of a precisely machined Zerodur spacer, that holds 3 optical contacted mirrors forming a high finesse V-shaped cavity. This arrangement allows the resonant light to be sent back to the seeding laser, triggering a drastic narrowing of the emission linewidth well below the cavity mode width without the need for high-bandwidth active electronic lock of the laser on the cavity. Low expansion material and precise temperature control of the reference cavity leads to a source with Hz level frequency drift and 70 Hz-level emission linewidth at 215 THz. We discuss the benefits of this new prototype compared to its predecessor for high-sensitivity cavity ring down spectroscopy (CRDS). To serve this purpose, the frequency stabilised laser was characterised on short, mid and long time scales, using a high finesse etalon, a self referenced optical frequency comb and a long term saturated CRDS absorption Lamb dip measurement on water.

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Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/RC grant agreement number 306045, from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Grant ANR-13-JS060005), from Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (LEFE/CHAT), from the Alexander von Humboldt fundation project DEAPICE. The authors acknowledge the technical support of Arnaud Dapoigny, David Terrier, Damien Capolongo and Hugues Guillet de Chatellus. The Zerodur spacer was built by Winlight Optics.

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  1. Mathieu Casado

    Present address: Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Postdam, Germany

  2. Tim Stoltmann

    Present address: AP2E, Aix en Provence, France

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  1. LiPHY, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Mathieu Casado, Tim Stoltmann & Samir Kassi

  2. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Mathieu Casado, Amaelle Landais, Mathieu Daëron & Frederic Prié

  3. ALMA Consulting, Arcueil, France

    Nicolas Jobert

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Casado, M., Stoltmann, T., Landais, A. et al. High stability in near-infrared spectroscopy: part 1, adapting clock techniques to optical feedback. Appl. Phys. B 128, 54 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07774-2

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