Abstract

A room-temperature-operating vertical external cavity surface emitting laser is applied around $1550\mathrm{nm}$ to intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy analyzed by time-resolved Fourier-transform interferometry. At an equivalent path length of $15\mathrm{km}$, the high-resolution spectrum of the semiconductor disk laser emission covers $17\mathrm{nm}$ simultaneously. A noise-equivalent absorption coefficient at $1\mathrm{s}$ averaging equal to $1.5\times {10}^{-10}{\mathrm{cm}}^{-1}{\mathrm{Hz}}^{-1∕2}$ per spectral element is reported for $65\mathrm{km}$, the longest path length employed.

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