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  • 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
  • paper ED_3_2

Precise Molecular Spectroscopy Using a Stable and Tuneable Frequency Comb

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Abstract

Accurate molecular spectroscopy in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region allows precision measurements with applications in fundamental physics. We present our on-going work towards measuring absolute vibrational frequencies of various polyatomic species – in particular methanol – around 10 µm, at an unprecedented level of accuracy, using a both ultra-stable and widely tuneable near-infrared frequency comb. We have recently been able to lock mid-IR radiation to a frequency comb stabilized to a 1.54 µm near-IR reference [1,2]. This reference, generated at the French national metrology institute (LNE-SYRTE), is monitored against atomic frequency standards [3] and transferred to LPL via a 43-km long optical fibre [4] (see Fig. 1). This provides the ultimate frequency accuracy (potentially the 3×10−16 of the Cs fountain clock) and stability (~10−15 after 1s of integration).

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