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Optics Letters

Saturated absorption spectroscopy of acetylene molecules with an optical nanofiber

Masato Takiguchi, Yutaka Yoshikawa, Takayuki Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Nakayama, Takahiro Kuga

Published Mar 29, 2011• 25 citations
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Abstract

We performed saturated absorption spectroscopy of acetylene (C₂H₂) ν₁ + ν₃ band transitions with an optical nanofiber (ONF). Owing to high-intensity light around the ONF, we observed a Lamb dip at relatively low-power laser (~10 mW) without a cavity. Our results showed that the simple ONF spectrometer is advantageous for performing saturation absorption spectroscopy and serves as a practical low-cost wavelength reference in the optical fiber communication band.

DOI
10.1364/ol.36.001254

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We performed saturated absorption spectroscopy of acetylene (C₂H₂) ν₁ + ν₃ band transitions with an optical nanofiber (ONF). Owing to high-intensity light around the ONF, we observed a Lamb dip at relatively low-power laser (~10 mW) without a cavity. Our results showed that the simple ONF spectrometer is advantageous for performing saturation absorption spectroscopy and serves as a practical low-cost wavelength reference in the optical fiber communication band.
Optical nanofiber is a widely adopted platform for highly efficient light-matter interaction by virtue of its exposed evanescent field with high light intensity. However, the strongly constrained mode field with the wavelength-scale size makes the light-matter interaction time limited in consideration of the random thermal motion of warm molecules, which results in considerable transit-time dephasing and thus line broadening. Here we report a systematic study of the transit-time effect associated with the optical nanofibers. Both simulation and experiment for nanofibers exposed in acetylene demonstrate the considerable transit-time broadened linewidth in the low-pressure range.
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Using a commercial Fourier transform spectrometer (Bomem Inc.), we have recorded the absoption spectrum of the C2D2 molecule near the optical communication wavelength of 1550 nm. As for acetylene C2H2,1 this molecule shows about 50 evenly spaced absorption lines between 1511 nm and 1534 nm. On the other hand, 87Rb presents two resonances at 1529.261 nm and 1529.366 nm, resulting from transitions between excited states.2,3 We compare the characteristics of the absorption profile of C2D2 to that of 87Rb and C2H2 for the purpose of frequency locking of tunable semiconductor lasers.
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