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Mode-hop compensation for intracavity sensing via chip voltage in an external-cavity QCL

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In this paper, we describe a technique to perform intracavity gas sensing by detecting changes in the QCL voltage. The influence of mode-hops is compensated by a data acquisition and processing based on a dual wavelength scanning. This allows to perform gas detection over the full cavity spectral range (\({1277}{\hbox { cm}^{-1}}-{1348}{\hbox { cm}^{-1}}\)) without the use of a mode-hop free setup. First results of measurement of the \(\hbox {CH}_{4}\) absorption spectrum are presented.

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Laurent Bizet acknowledges the Direction Générale de l’Armement and Région Grand-Est for his PhD funding.

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    Laurent Bizet, Raphael Vallon, Bertrand Parvitte & Virginie Zeninari

  2. MirSense, Nano-INNOV, Building 863, 8 Avenue de la Vauve, 91120, Palaiseau, France

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Bizet, L., Vallon, R., Parvitte, B. et al. Mode-hop compensation for intracavity sensing via chip voltage in an external-cavity QCL. Appl. Phys. B 128, 166 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07882-z

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