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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Resonant cavity gas-phase polarimeter
J Poirson1, M Vallet, F Bretenaker
1Laboratoire d'Electronique Quantique-Physique des Lasers, Unité Mixte de Recherche du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 6627, Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu, F-35042 Rennes Cedex, France.
Abstract:
A high-sensitivity polarimeter is demonstrated for application to gas-phase chirality measurement. This device is based on the physics of the eigenstates of a Fabry-Perot cavity, permitting improvement in the sensitivity with respect to the usual polarimeters. Typical measurements of rotations of 50 (±1) × 10(-)(5)° induced by the optical activity of (R)-(+)-limonene and (S)-(-)-limonene in the vapor phase are shown. A noise level corresponding to a rotation of 10(-)(6)° is experimentally demonstrated. Application to the polarimetric monitoring of an enantiomer mixing racemization of limonene in the gas phase is also presented.
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