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Advances in tunable lasers over the past few years are reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on their application to spectroscopy.
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Pidgeon, C., Colles, M. Recent developments in tunable lasers for spectroscopy. Nature 279, 377–381 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279377a0
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