Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)

FTS focuses on the latest advances in instrumentation and applications of Fourier Transform Spectroscopy to astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science and remote sensing, laboratory spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, bio-medicine and a variety of industrial applications.

Topics of Interest

1. Novel Interferometer Design
   Imaging FT spectrometers, spatial-spectral interferometry, stationary interferometers, spectrometers on a chip, stationary-wave integrated FT spectrometers
2. Instrument Design, Scientific Objectives and Measurement Results for Space Missions Utilizing Fourier Transform Spectrometers
3. Laser Frequency Combs for Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
   Development of frequency comb sources and instruments on chip on in novel spectral regions
4. Dual-comb Spectroscopy, Frequency-comb Based Spectroscopy with Michelson Interferometers or Pulse Shapers. Applications to Laboratory Spectroscopy and to Sensing
5. Laboratory Spectroscopy
   Advanced light sources and measurement techniques for Fourier transform spectrometers; FTS at synchrotron facilities, nano-spectroscopy, nonlinear and multidimensional FT spectroscopy with ultrashort pulse lasers
6. FTS Applications
   Industrial process monitoring, spectroscopy, earth and planetary science, atmospheric remote sensing, trace gas detection, astronomy and experimental cosmology, fusion diagnostics
7. FTS Algorithm Developments
   Spectral and radiometric calibration, instrument line shape modeling and correction, nonlinearity effects, applications of artificial intelligence
8. All Other Topics Related to Instrument Developments and Characterizations, Data Processing and Applications of Fourier Transform Spectroscopy