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Frequency combs

Combs for dark energy

Nature Photonics volume 2, pages 712–713 (2008)Cite this article

By using laser frequency combs to stabilize astronomical spectrometers, it may be possible to better understand our expanding Universe.

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Figure 1: In situ calibration of an astronomical spectrometer.

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