Abstract
An optical parametric oscillator based Doppler-broadened (Db) noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectrometry (NICE-OHMS) system suitable for addressing fundamental vibrational transitions in the 3.2–3.9 μm mid-infrared (MIR) region has been realized. An Allan–Werle analysis provides a detection sensitivity of methane of with a 20 s integration time, which corresponds to 90 ppt of if detected at the strongest transition addressed at 40 Torr. This supersedes that of previous Db MIR NICE-OHMS demonstrations and suggests that the technique can be suitable for detection of both the environmentally important and isotopologues. It also opens up for detection of many other molecular species at ppt and sub-ppt concentration levels.
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