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End date: 2022 × Start date: 2022 × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2021 × Type: Text × Subject: Absorption spectroscopy ×

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    Fiber-integrated hollow-core light cage for gas spectroscopy
    (Melville, NY : AIP Publishing, 2021) Jang, Bumjoon; Gargiulo, Julian; Kim, Jisoo; Bürger, Johannes; Both, Steffen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Wieduwilt, Torsten; Weiss, Thomas; Maier, Stefan A.; Schmidt, Markus A.
    Interfacing integrated on-chip waveguides with spectroscopic approaches represents one research direction within current photonics aiming at reducing geometric footprints and increasing device densities. Particularly relevant is to connect chip-integrated waveguides with established fiber-based circuitry, opening up the possibility for a new class of devices within the field of integrated photonics. Here, one attractive waveguide is the on-chip light cage, confining and guiding light in a low-index core through the anti-resonance effect. This waveguide, implemented via 3D nanoprinting and reaching nearly 100% overlap of mode and material of interest, uniquely provides side-wise access to the core region through the open spaces between the cage strands, drastically reducing gas diffusion times. Here, we extend the capabilities of the light cage concept by interfacing light cages and optical fibers, reaching a fully fiber-integrated on-chip waveguide arrangement with its spectroscopic capabilities demonstrated here on the example of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy of ammonia. Controlling and optimizing the fiber circuitry integration have been achieved via automatic alignment in etched v-grooves on silicon chips. This successful device integration via 3D nanoprinting highlights the fiber-interfaced light cage to be an attractive waveguide platform for a multitude of spectroscopy-related fields, including bio-analytics, lab-on-chip photonic sensing, chemistry, and quantum metrology. © 2021 Author(s).
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    Highly efficient soft x-ray spectrometer for transient absorption spectroscopy with broadband table-top high harmonic sources
    (Melville, NY : AIP Publishing LLC, 2021) Kleine, Carlo; Ekimova, Maria; Winghart, Marc-Oliver; Eckert, Sebastian; Reichel, Oliver; Löchel, Heike; Probst, Jürgen; Braig, Christoph; Seifert, Christian; Erko, Alexei; Sokolov, Andrey; Vrakking, Marc J. J.; Nibbering, Erik T. J.; Rouzée, Arnaud
    We present a novel soft x-ray spectrometer for ultrafast absorption spectroscopy utilizing table-top femtosecond high-order harmonic sources. Where most commercially available spectrometers rely on spherical variable line space gratings with a typical efficiency on the order of 3% in the first diffractive order, this spectrometer, based on a Hettrick-Underwood design, includes a reflective zone plate as a dispersive element. An improved efficiency of 12% at the N K-edge is achieved, accompanied by a resolving power of 890. The high performance of the soft x-ray spectrometer is further demonstrated by comparing nitrogen K-edge absorption spectra from calcium nitrate in aqueous solution obtained with our high-order harmonic source to previous measurements performed at the electron storage ring facility BESSY II.