A new spectrometer for the LOS platform: first in Belgium and world premiere!

The Lasers, Optics and Spectroscopies (LOS) technological platform has just received a new spectrometer. Its particularity? It can be used in many fields and allows the study of phenomena with very high spectral resolution and at very high speed - of the order of a microsecond. It is the first instrument of this type in Belgium and the world's first one qualified for high-resolution spectroscopy! The LOS platform, led by Professor Muriel Lepère, offers expertise in advanced optical measurement for the characterization of matter, light and matter-light interactions, whether in fundamental or applied research. It is equipped with various measuring instruments, many of which are home-made. This new instrument, a novel high-resolution dual comb spectrometer, completes the state-of-the-art equipment. In October 2019, following a meeting with IRsweep , a spin-off of ETH Zurich, Muriel Lepère decided to acquire IRis-F1, an infrared spectrometer based on frequency comb technology and developed by IRsweep. A spectrometer is a scientific instrument that allows to determine the components of matter, solid, liquid or gaseous, living or inert, and to measure their concentrations.