A widely tunable 10-μm quantum cascade laser phase-locked to a state-of-the-art mid-infrared reference for precision molecular spectroscopy

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作者：
Sow, P. L. T. [1 ,2 ]
Mejri, S. [1 ,2 ]
Tokunaga, S. K. [1 ,2 ]
Lopez, O. [1 ,2 ]
Goncharov, A. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Argence, B. [1 ,2 ]
Chardonnet, C. [1 ,2 ]
Amy-Klein, A. [1 ,2 ]
Daussy, C. [1 ,2 ]
Darquie, B. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Paris 13, Ethol & Sociobiol Lab, CNRS, UMR 7538,LPL, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
[2] Univ Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Phys Lasers Lab, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
[3] RAS, SB, Inst Laser Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
来源：
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2014年 / 104卷 / 26期
关键词：
FREQUENCY-COMB; ROOM-TEMPERATURE; ENERGY DIFFERENCE; PARITY VIOLATION; HERTZ-LEVEL; STABILIZATION; ENANTIOMERS; STABILITY; LINEWIDTH; METROLOGY;
D O I：
10.1063/1.4886120
中图分类号：
O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要：
We report the coherent phase-locking of a quantum cascade laser (QCL) at 10-mu m to the secondary frequency standard of this spectral region, a CO2 laser stabilized on a saturated absorption line of OsO4. The stability and accuracy of the standard are transferred to the QCL resulting in a line width of the order of 10 Hz, and leading to the narrowest QCL to date. The locked QCL is then used to perform absorption spectroscopy spanning 6 GHz of NH3 and methyltrioxorhenium, two species of interest for applications in precision measurements. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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