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Supercontinuum sources

The emergence of convenient sources of broadband light spanning the visible and near-infrared is proving increasingly useful for applications involving spectroscopy, imaging and metrology, reports Neil Savage.

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Savage, N. Supercontinuum sources. Nature Photon 3, 114–115 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.286

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