High-resolution degenerate four-wave-mixing spectroscopy of OH in a flame with a novel single-mode tunable laser

The first application of a novel single-mode tunable laser system to nonlinear spectroscopy is reported. The device uses a modeless dye laser, pumped by a single longitudinal mode (SLM) Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, as a narrow-bandwidth amplifier of the output of a SLM diode laser. The system provides pulses of 5-ns duration, 30-mJ energy and 165-MHz spectral line width tunable in the range 632–639 nm at 10-Hz repetition rate. The frequency-doubled output of the laser is used to record spectral line shapes of degenerate four wave mixing (DFWM) signals from the P1(15) line of the A2Σ–X2Π (0,0) band of OH in a methane/oxygen flame. Pressure broadening of the DFWM line shape is studied for the first time in a low-pressure flame and a pressure-broadening rate of 1.31±0.09×10-4 cm-1/Torr is derived from the data. Power-broadening effects are measured and compared with predictions of the standard perturbative model and of an analytical solution derived from a non-perturbative treatment of DFWM with arbitrary pump and probe intensities.

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