Complex direct comb spectroscopy with a virtually imaged phased array

Opt Lett. 2016 Mar 15;41(6):1277-80. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.001277.

Abstract

We demonstrate a simple interferometric technique to directly measure the complex optical transmittance over a large spectral range using a frequency-comb spectrometer based on a virtually imaged phased array. A Michelson interferometer encodes the phase deviations induced by a sample contained in one of its arms into an interferogram image. When combined with an additional image taken from each arm separately, along with a frequency-calibration image, this allows full reconstruction of the sample's optical transfer function. We demonstrate the technique with a vapor cell containing H13C14N, producing transmittance and phase spectra spanning 2.9 THz (∼23 nm) with ∼1 GHz resolution.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't