| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 238, 2020
EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2020)
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| Article Number | 12003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | Topical Meeting (TOM) 13- Advances and Applications of Optics and Photonics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023812003 | |
| Published online | 20 August 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023812003
Cavity-enhanced detection of transient absorption signals
1 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2 Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
* e-mail: fernanda.rodriguesmachado@mcgill.ca
** e-mail: lilian.childress@mcgill.ca
Published online: 20 August 2020
We present a simple, high-duty-cycle, cavity-enhanced optical absorption measurement technique based on delay-limited Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) sideband locking. The chosen circuit naturally provides realtime readout of the amplitude quadrature of the PDH error signal, which can be mapped onto the cavity’s internal loss rate while using the phase quadrature to lock sideband frequency to the cavity mode. Our proofof-concept device comprises a 5-cm-long Fabry-Perot cavity with a 450 kHz bandwidth (finesse 6800, 350 ns power ringdown), and a feedback bandwidth of several MHz, limited primarily by the group delay of our electronics. This technique could readily be applied to other optical resonators such as fiber cavities, with potential applications in radiation dosimetry.
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