Application of an optical parametric generator to cavity enhanced experiment

Beata Rutecka; Jacek Wojtas; Zbigniew Bielecki; Janusz Mikołajczyk; Mirosław Nowakowski

doi:10.1117/12.872228

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14 September 2010 Application of an optical parametric generator to cavity enhanced experiment

Beata Rutecka, Jacek Wojtas, Zbigniew Bielecki, Janusz Mikołajczyk, Mirosław Nowakowski

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Proceedings Volume 7745, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2010; 77450I (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872228
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2010, 2010, Wilga, Poland

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The paper presents an application of an optical parametric generator (OPG) for cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy (CEAS) technique to nitric oxide (NO) detection. The principle of this method is based on an injection of a radiation beam into an optical cavity at a very small angle. The radiation is multiple reflected inside the resonator equipped with spherical and high reflectance mirrors. After each reflection a part of the radiation leaves the optical cavity due to residual transmission of mirrors. In the case of NO detection the laser emitting at around 5.26 μm was applied. During investigation of CEAS system with OPG, two-lenses collimator was required to improve OPG beam divergence. The Ge and ZnSe lenses were used. Thanks to this decrease of about three times in beam diameter was achieved (at the distance of 1 m from source). It make it possible to measure output signal from the CEAS optical cavity.

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Beata Rutecka, Jacek Wojtas, Zbigniew Bielecki, Janusz Mikołajczyk, and Mirosław Nowakowski "Application of an optical parametric generator to cavity enhanced experiment", Proc. SPIE 7745, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2010, 77450I (14 September 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872228

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