MPQ-scientists record broad absorption spectra on a
microsecond scale with two laser frequency combs.
A team of scientists around Dr. Nathalie Picqué and Prof.
Theodor W. Hänsch at the Laser Spectroscopy Division of the Max Planck
Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching), in a collaboration with the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Institut des Sciences
Moléculaires d’Orsay (France) now reports on a new method of real-time
identification and quantification of molecular species (Nature Communications
5, 3375 – Feb. 27, 2014).