Abstract:Laser light has a number of spectacular properties that make it useful for analytical spectrometry. One is that it has a high directionality (i.e. it looks like a real “beam”). This implies, among other things, that it can be focused down to micrometer‐sized spots. Another is that pulsed lasers can emit large amounts of light in very short pulses (often with a duration of 10
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