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Optical sensing gets exceptional

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Conventional sensors based on devices called optical resonators have fundamentally limited sensitivity. Careful engineering has been used to overcome this constraint, opening the door to ultraprecise sensing. See Letters p.187 & p.192

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Figure 1: Improving the sensitivity of optical-resonator sensors.

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Rechtsman, M. Optical sensing gets exceptional. Nature 548, 161–162 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/548161a

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