| Name of light source: | Continuous-Wave Frequency Comb Fourier Transform Source based on a High-Dispersion Cavity |
| Name of vendor selling or name of group using this source: | Sanders group, UW-Madison |
| Year of initial publication or catalog entry: | 2006 |
| Primary application for which this source was developed: | Absorption Spectroscopy |
| References or URLs for relevant information on this source: | Th. Kraetschmer, J. W. Walewski, and S. T. Sanders, "Continuous-Wave Frequency Comb Fourier Transform Source based on a High-Dispersion Cavity", Optics Letters, accepted (2006) http://ol.osa.org/upcoming_pdf.cfm?id=71542#search=%22optics%20letters%20kraetschmer%22 |
| Additional information / notes: | Beating of nearby modes of an unequally spaced frequency comb naturally assigns unique amplitude modulation frequencies to each spectral component emitted. The source contains no moving parts. |
| Span of the spectrum covered, based on -10dB points [cm-1]: | 12.5 |
| Time to cover this range [s]: | 0.001 |
| Spectrum update repetition rate [Hz]: | 1000 |
| Center wavenumber [cm-1]: | 6450 |
| Center wavelength [nm]: | 1550.3875968992 |
| Spectral Resolution, best in scan [cm-1]: | 0.25 |
| Power in TEM00, averaged over 1 s [mW]: | 2 |
| Shortest time spent on 1 spectral resolution element [s]: | 2.0E-5 |
| Worst spectral resolution in scan [cm-1]: | 0.25 |
| Physical dimension -- length [mm]: | 400 |
| Physical dimension -- width [mm]: | 400 |
| Physical dimension -- height [mm]: | 150 |
| Data rate [S/s]: | 8.0625 |
| Duty cycle [%], based on -10dB points: | 100% |
| Best spectral resolution [GHz]: | 7.5 |
| Best spectral resolution [nm]: | 0.060092542515474 |
| Longest coherence length [cm]: | 4 |
| Spectral tracking linearity [%]: | 100% |
| Spectral coverage [nm]: | 3.0046271257737 |
| Size [m3]: | 0.024 |
| Initial entry time: | 2006-09-11 10:58:44 |
| Last modified time: | 2006-09-12 13:33:38 |
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