Doppler-Free Two-Photon Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of a Nitrous Oxide (N${}_2$O) Vibrational Overtone Transition

Abstract

We report Doppler-free two-photon absorption of N${}_2$O at $\lambda$ = 4.53 $\mu$m, measured by cavity ring-down spectroscopy. High power was achieved by optical self-locking of a quantum cascade laser to a linear resonator of finesse $F$ = 22730, and accurate laser detuning over a 400 MHz range was measured relative to an optical frequency comb. At a sample pressure of p = 0.13 kPa, we report a large two-photon cross-section of ${\sigma }_{13}^{(2)}$ = 8.0 $\times$ 10${}^{-41}$ cm${}^4$ s molecule${}^{-1}$ for the $Q$(18) rovibrational transition at a resonant frequency of ${\nu }_0$ = 66179400.8 MHz.

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