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Laser Heterodyne Spectroscopy

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In 1947, Gorelik [1] and practically at the same time Forrester, Parkins, and Gerjuoy [2] expressed the idea of observing low-frequency interference oscillations (beatings) between two incoherent light sources of slightly different optical frequencies. At that time, any such experiment seemed to be unreal because spectral intensity of traditional light sources was too small. However, 8 years later Forrester, Gudmundsen, and Johnson [3] reported on observation of beatings between σ components of the Zeeman splitting of the 202Hg green line at the wavelength 0.5461 ?m. To explain the difficulties and complexity of the experiment, it would be enough to say that the signal-to-noise ratio was only 10−4 at the frequency of 10 GHz. For detecting the signal, the special cumbersome ultrahigh frequency vacuum photodiode was designed and manufactured. The whole experimental arrangement was so complicated that every practical implementation of this method seemed to be unreal. Nonetheless, even at that time it was clear that, using the light sources of much narrower spectral line and high enough spectral flux, it was possible to significantly simplify the experiment.

The situation changed dramatically with the invention of lasers. Practically simultaneously with the announcement of the first gaseous laser, the basic work by Forrester [4] appeared, in which theoretical background of spectral measurements with laser heterodyning was formulated. This work also described the method of spectral measurements without reference beam, which was later called the homodyne spectroscopy. From that moment, the laser heterodyne spectroscopy has evolved into a valuable technique of precise spectral measurements.

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Protopopov, V.V. (2009). Laser Heterodyne Spectroscopy. In: Laser Heterodyning. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02338-5_2

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