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Frequency comb benefits

Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 82–84 (2009)Cite this article

By using an optical frequency comb as a light source for Fourier transform spectroscopy, scientists show that well-resolved absorption and dispersion spectra can be recorded simultaneously, providing sensitive detection of multiple molecular species over a broad spectral window.

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Figure 1: A Fourier transform spectrometer that measures the spectrum of a single-mode laser with a signal from a Michelson interferometer.

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