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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 177-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0558-4
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Spectral super-resolution spectroscopy is realized by exploiting a random laser that chaotically produces sharply spiked spectral lines, representing a new generation of simple, compact and cost-effective spectroscopy tools. Super-resolution microscopy refers to a powerful set of imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit. Some of these techniques, the importance of which was recognized by the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry, are based on the concept of image reconstruction by spatially sparse sampling. Here, we introduce the concept of super-resolution spectroscopy based on sparse sampling in the frequency domain, and show that this can be naturally achieved using a random laser source. In its chaotic regime, the emission spectrum of a random laser features sharp spikes at uncorrelated frequencies that are sparsely distributed over the emission bandwidth. These narrow lasing modes probe stochastically the spectral response of a sample, allowing it to be reconstructed with a resolution exceeding that of the spectrometer. We envision that the proposed technique will inspire a new generation of simple, cheap, high-resolution spectroscopy tools with a reduced footprint.
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