Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy

Kazuki Hashimoto; Takuma Nakamura; Takahiro Kageyama; Venkata Ramaiah Badarla; Hiroyuki Shimada; Ryoich Horisaki; Takuro Ideguchi

doi:10.1038/s41377-023-01096-4

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Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy

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- Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 3, Pages: 465-474(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institute for Photon Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
  2.Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
  3.Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
- Author bio：
  
  Takuro Ideguchi (ideguchi@ipst.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01096-4
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- Published：31 March 2023，
  
  Published Online：4 March 2023，
  
  Received：1 December 2022，
  
  Revised：24 January 2023，
  
  Accepted：5 February 2023
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Hashimoto K. et al. Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 464-474 (2023).
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Hashimoto K. et al. Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 464-474 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01096-4.

摘要

Abstract

High-speed measurement confronts the extreme speed limit when the signal becomes comparable to the noise level. In the context of broadband mid-infrared spectroscopy

state-of-the-art ultrafast Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers

in particular dual-comb spectrometers

have improved the measurement rate up to a few MSpectra s

−1

which is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. Time-stretch infrared spectroscopy

an emerging ultrafast frequency-swept mid-infrared spectroscopy technique

has shown a record-high rate of 80 MSpectra s

−1

with an intrinsically higher signal-to-noise ratio than Fourier-transform spectroscopy by more than the square-root of the number of spectral elements. However

it can measure no more than ~30 spectral elements with a low resolution of several cm

−1

. Here

we significantly increase the measurable number of spectral elements to more than 1000 by incorporating a nonlinear upconversion process. The one-to-one mapping of a broadband spectrum from the mid-infrared to the near-infrared telecommunication region enables low-loss time-stretching with a single-mode optical fiber and low-noise signal detection with a high-bandwidth photoreceiver. We demonstrate high-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of gas-phase methane molecules with a high resolution of 0.017 cm

−1

. This unprecedentedly high-speed vibrational spectroscopy technique would satisfy various unmet needs in experimental molecular science

e.g.

measuring ultrafast dynamics of irreversible phenomena

statistically analyzing a large amount of heterogeneous spectral data

or taking broadband hyperspectral images at a high frame rate.

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