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Description: A high-resolution, broadband spectroscopy system has been demonstrated based on fiber-laser frequency combs, whose output forms a comb of lines spanning a wide optical spectrum. The output of a frequency comb is sent through a gas cell. A second phase-locked comb is then mixed with the transmitted comb, to produce a comb of rf heterodyne beat signals. Each rf beat signal provides the relative absorption and phase shift of the gas at a specific wavelength.
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