Absorption line broadening in atomic beams produced in a molecular beam epitaxy environment.

Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) is used to measure the 6s S-5d6p D absorption line profile of a Ba atomic beam produced in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) reactor. Despite the noisy MBE environment, a signal-to-noise ratio up to 100 is obtained thanks to a thorough optimization of the measurement setup. A model that realistically describes this absorption profile is presented, taking into account the angular distribution of atomic concentration in the atomic beam as well as the reactor and setup geometry.

High-resolution dual comb spectroscopy using a free-running, bidirectional ring titanium sapphire laser.

We report the first measurement of resolved molecular absorption lines with dual-comb spectroscopy using a Kerr-lens mode-locked bidirectional Ti:sapphire ring laser cavity. A 3 nm broad spectrum has been recorded in 5.3 ms with a spectral resolution of ≈ 1 GHz (0.

Broadband cavity-enhanced molecular spectra from Vernier filtering of a complete frequency comb.

We present a new approach to cavity enhanced-direct frequency comb spectroscopy where the full emission bandwidth of a titanium:sapphire laser is exploited, currently at gigahertz resolution. The technique is based on low-resolution Vernier filtering obtained with an appreciable actively stabilized mismatch between the cavity-free spectral range and the laser repetition rate, using a diffraction grating and a split-photodiode. Spectra covering 1300  cm⁻¹ (40 THz) are acquired in less than 100 ms, and a baseline noise of 1.