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Optical feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (OF-CEAS) has been demonstrated by coupling a distributed feedback diode laser to a ring cavity. Frequency-selected light decaying from the ring cavity is retro-reflected, inducing a counter-propagating intra-cavity beam, and providing optical feedback to the laser. At specific laser-to-cavity distances, all cavity mode frequencies return to the diode laser with the same phase, allowing spectra to be accumulated across the range of frequencies of the current-tuned laser. OF-CEAS has been used to measure very weak oxygen isotopologue (16O18O and 16O17O) absorptions in ambient air at wavelengths near 762 nm using the electric-dipole forbidden O2 A-band. A bandwidth reduced minimum detectable absorption coefficient of 2.2×10−9 cm−1 Hz−1/2 is demonstrated.
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Hamilton, D.J., Nix, M.G.D., Baran, S.G. et al. Optical feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (OF-CEAS) in a ring cavity. Appl. Phys. B 100, 233–242 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3811-6
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