Precise multispecies agricultural gas flux determined using broadband open-path dual-comb spectroscopy
Open-path dual-comb spectroscopy measures multispecies livestock emissions, enabling future field-scale ecological studies.
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Open-path dual-comb spectroscopy measures multispecies livestock emissions, enabling future field-scale ecological studies.
We report on a compact and transportable apparatus that consists of a cold atomic target at the center of a high resolution recoil ion momentum spectrometer. Cold rubidium atoms serve as a target which can be operated in three different modes: in continuous mode, consisting of a cold atom beam generated by a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap, in normal mode in which the atoms from the beam are trapped in a three-dimensional magneto-optical trap (3D MOT), and in high density mode in which the 3D MOT is operated in dark spontaneous optical trap configuration. The targets are characterized using photoionization.