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December 9, 2011

ScienceShot: Sniffing Out the One in a Quadrillion

Made by INO-CNR researchers the first experimental apparatus capable of detecting optically the concentration of radiocarbon (14C) present in natural abundance in a sample of carbon dioxide gas.
December 2, 2011

The micro-optical foundry appears onto Optics & Photonics News.

The micro-optical foundry, devoloped at the UOS of Naples, is among the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research, to have emerged over the past 12 months, appearing into the December Special Issue of Optics & Photonics News.
December 2, 2011

Molecular gas sensing below parts per trillion: Radiocarbon-dioxide optical detection

Made the first experimental apparatus capable of detecting optically the concentration of radiocarbon (14C) present in natural abundance in a sample of carbon dioxide gas. The work, carried out by researchers at the National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council (CNR-INO), at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), will be presented in the journal Physical Review Letters. This research shows the lowest concentration ever measured with laser spectroscopy techniques, a gas of molecules, demonstrating that it is possible to detect carbon dioxide at pressures over a million billion times lower than the atmospheric pressure.
Simulation software to evaluate the uncertainty of experimental results
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