JILA and NIST Fellows Jun Ye and David Nesbitt, along with their respective teams, have recently been highlighted in the latest issue of the SPIE Photonics West Show Daily, a publication from SPIE. This highlight focuses on the recent advancements in the frequency comb breathalyzer apparatus that the researchers have built and tested, which looks at diagnosing COVID-19 and other diseases. For this highlight, Qizhong Liang, a graduate student in the Ye group, was interviewed.
You can read the full highlight here (found on pages 24-26).
This research was also highlighted in Spectroscopy Europe World, which the full article here can be found at the hyperlink.
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