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Monolithic folded resonator for evanescent wave cavity ringdown spectroscopy
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An optical resonator is characterized that employs both ultrahigh-reflective coated surfaces and total internal reflection to enable cavity ringdown spectroscopy of surfaces, films, and liquids to enable polarization-dependent phenomena, such as molecular orientation, to be probed.Abstract:
An optical resonator is characterized that employs both
ultrahigh-reflective coated surfaces and total internal reflection to
enable cavity ringdown spectroscopy of surfaces, films, and
liquids. The monolithic folded design possesses a
polarization-independent finesse that allows polarization-dependent
phenomena, such as molecular orientation, to be probed. Although a
restricted bandwidth (∼15% of the design wavelength) results
from use of reflective coatings, the resonator provides high
sensitivity and facile operation. A minimum detectable absorption
of 2.2 × 10-6 was obtained for single laser shots by
use of multimode excitation at 530 nm with an excimer-pumped, pulsed
dye laser.read more
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Cavity ring‐down optical spectrometer for absorption measurements using pulsed laser sources
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have developed a technique which allows optical absorption measurements to be made using a pulsed light source and offers a sensitivity significantly greater than that attained using stabilized continuous light sources.
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Cavity ring-down spectroscopy for quantitative absorption measurements
Piotr Zalicki,Richard N. Zare +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined under what conditions cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) can be used for quantitative diagnostics of molecular species and showed that CRDS is appropriate for species whose absorption features are wider than the spacing between longitudinal modes of the optical cavity.
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Cavity ring-down spectroscopy
TL;DR: Cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) is a laser-based absorption spectrograph that is starting to find extensive application as a consequence of the very high sensitivity of the method compared with more traditional infrared spectrograms as discussed by the authors.
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Ring‐down cavity absorption spectroscopy of the very weak HCN overtone bands with six, seven, and eight stretching quanta
TL;DR: In this paper, a nonstandard, high sensitivity, absorption detection technique has been applied to the investigation of the very weak fifth, sixth, and seventh overtones of HCN at 100 Torr and 296 K.