[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Dual-Comb Spectroscopy of Acetylene with a Single, Free-Running MIXSEL Generating two Frequency Combs

摘要： Dual-comb spectroscopy combines the advantages of conventional Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) with the measurement speed, stability and accuracy of multiheterodyne beat note detection. Two optical frequency combs (OFCs) with slightly different line spacing beat on a photodetector and convert the optical spectra down to the more accessible radio frequency (RF) domain. This enables an accurate broadband spectrometer without moving parts featuring short measurement time, however, it also requires two mutually locked OFCs with good noise performance which is challenging. Dual-comb modelocked optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) provide a great simplification. The modelocked integrated external-cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL) is a special type of ultrafast SDLs which integrates a semiconductor gain and a saturable absorber in a single epitaxial structure and allows for modelocking in a simple and straight cavity. Most recently we increased the modelocked optical bandwidth above 10 nm with pulse durations below 150 fs. With two intracavity birefringent crystals, the initially unpolarized beam is separated onto two spots on the MIXSEL chip, which can be individually pumped. The dual-comb MIXSEL is a straight linear cavity formed by the two end mirrors (i.e. MIXSEL chip and output coupler (OC) and emits two orthogonally polarized OFCs with a slight difference in line spacing from the same cavity with an intrinsically high mutual coherence. Here, we present dual-comb spectroscopy of acetylene with a single, free-running dual-comb MIXSEL at 1030 nm (290 THz). The laser provides more than 10 nm of optical bandwidth usable for spectroscopic interrogations and with a resolution of 2.73 GHz, we can clearly resolve the individual absorption lines with great precision. Without active stabilization and locking electronics, the overlay of the experimentally acquired dual-comb transmission follows line-by-line the characteristic acetylene transmission envelope as computed from the HITRAN 2016 database after an a posteriori wavelength calibration. Furthermore, the residuals between the observed traces and the HITRAN reference spectrum and its standard deviation of 0.028 attests good transmission intensity precision to our dual-comb spectrometer.