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Lensless digital holographic microscopy (LDHM) relies on interference between an unscattered reference wave and a weakly scattered object wave - an assumption that rapidly fails in turbid samples under multiple scattering. To overcome this…
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Optical frequency-comb-based-high-resolution spectrometers offer enormous potential for spectroscopic applications. Although various implementations have been demonstrated, the lack of suitable mid-infrared comb sources has impeded…
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Fourier transform infrared nanospectroscopy (nano-FTIR) is a novel, increasingly adopted characterization method that leverages decades of established knowledge in infrared spectroscopy at the nanoscale. It opens up new possibilities in the…