The FFC-100 fiber-based frequency comb from Vescent Photonics is designed, when fully locked, to operate with better than 10–18 relative wavelength stability and to function as a stable wavelength calibration tool across large swaths of the near-infrared (NIR) spectrum. According to the company, factory-matched repetition rates of two or more FFC-100s enable dual-comb spectroscopy.
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