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Spectrometers shrink down

Nature Photonics volume 1, pages 444–445 (2007) Cite this article

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Researchers uncover a new route to building ultrasmall spectrometers, by directly probing an optical standing wave.

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Figure 1: The counterpropagative interference effect is exploited in the standing-wave spectrometer presented by le Coarer and colleagues1.

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  1. Dietmar Knipp is at the School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, 28759 Bremen, Germany. d.knipp@jacobs-university.de,

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Knipp, D. Spectrometers shrink down. Nature Photon 1, 444–445 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.132

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