Sideband cavity absorption readout (SideCAR) with a robust frequency lock
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2022-01-17
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We present a simple, continuous, cavity-enhanced optical absorption measurement technique based on high-bandwidth Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) sideband locking. The technique provides a resonant amplitude quadrature readout that can be mapped onto the cavity’s internal loss rate and is naturally compatible with weak probe beams. With a proof-of-concept 5-cm-long Fabry-Perot cavity, we measure an absorption sensitivity ∼10−10 cm−1/√Hz from 30 kHz to 1 MHz, and a minimum value of 6.6 × 10−11 cm−1/√Hz at 100 kHz, with 38 µW collected from the cavity’s circulating power.
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30 (2)
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754 - 767
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Optica