• DocumentCode
    689162
  • Title

    Optical sampling by laser cavity tuning with a highly varying laser cavity length

  • Author

    Potvin, Simon ; Deschenes, Jean-Daniel ; Genest, Jerome

  • Author_Institution
    Centre d´Opt., Photonique et Laser, Univ. Laval, Laval, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A 100 MHz mode-locked laser is tuned unevenly over 325 kHz with a stepper motor to produce high-SNR spectroscopic measurements of HCN with a 3 GHz spectral resolution. A setup to reduce the resulting heterodyne bandwidth is also demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    hydrogen compounds; infrared spectra; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; HCN; frequency 100 MHz; heterodyne bandwidth; high-SNR spectroscopic measurements; hydrogen cyanide; laser cavity length; laser cavity tuning; mode-locked laser; optical sampling; spectral resolution; stepper motor; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833544