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The friendly gas phase

A new design of a gas cell based on advanced fibre-optic solutions overcomes the practical difficulties that have so far hindered the use of gas-phase materials in optical science and technology.

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Figure 1: A gas cell that changes the colour of laser light.

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Zheltikov, A. The friendly gas phase. Nature Mater 4, 267–268 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1363

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