Absorption Detection Using Optical Waveguide Cavities
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Loock, Hans-Peter
Barnes, Jack A.
Gagliardi, Gianluca
Runkai Li, Runkai
Oleschuk, Richard
Wächter, Helen
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2016-03-18
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journal article
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en
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Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy , Microresonator , Microsphere , Fiber Loop
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Cavity ring-down spectroscopy is a spectroscopic method that uses a high quality optical cavity to amplify the optical loss due to the light absorption by a sample. In this presentation we highlight two applications of phase-shift cavity ring-down spectroscopy that are suited for absorption measurements in the condensed phase and make use of waveguide cavities. In the first application, a fiber loop is used as an optical cavity and the sample is introduced in a gap in the loop to allow absorption measurements of nanoliters of solution at the micromolar level. A second application involves silica microspheres as high finesse cavities. Information on the refractive index and absorption of a thin film of ethylene diamine on the surface of the microresonator is obtained simultaneously by the measurements of the wavelength shift of the cavity mode spectrum and the change in optical decay time, respectively.
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0008-4042