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Tiny spectrometer offers precision laser calibration

A tiny device for calibrating or stabilizing precision lasers has been designed and demonstrated at NIST, and could replace table-top-sized instruments used for laser calibration in atomic physics research, could better stabilize optical telecommunications channels, and perhaps could replace and improve on the precision of instrumentation used to measure length, chemicals or atmospheric gases.

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