Parallel sensing of multiple greenhouse gases adopting a mid-infrared dual-comb spectrometer with 300,000 comb-tooth-resolved frequency components

Daping Luo; Lian Zhou; Zefeng Wang; Zejiang Deng; Gehui Xie; Yu Wang; Zhiwei Zhu; Chenglin Gu; Tengfei Wu; Wenxue Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.560061

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 7, A1(2025)

Parallel sensing of multiple greenhouse gases adopting a mid-infrared dual-comb spectrometer with 300,000 comb-tooth-resolved frequency components

Daping Luo1,†... Lian Zhou1,†, Zefeng Wang1, Zejiang Deng1, Gehui Xie1, Yu Wang2, Zhiwei Zhu1, Chenglin Gu1,3,*, Tengfei Wu2, and Wenxue Li14,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Beijing Changcheng Institute of Metrology & Measurement, Beijing 100095, China

³e-mail: clgu@lps.ecnu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: wxli@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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