• Neil Savage

    Associate Editor

    Neil Savage was an associate editor for Laser Focus World from 1998 through 2000.

    Neil Savage
    May 7, 2001
    Researchers at Alcatel Submarine Networks (Clichy, France) have found that combining a 980-nm-pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with a Raman amplifier gives both an improvement...
    When imaging a burnt-out tank truck, researchers detected a gas leak of ethylene and ammonia (inset, left), which had spectra that overlapped, then used a gas-correlation cell to separate out the ammonia (inset, right).
    Neil Savage
    April 1, 2000
    Detecting gas leaks is important at chemical factories and pipelines, at the scenes of gas-tanker accidents, and around air inlets and outlets in indoor work areas. Geologists...
    Scientists prepare to launch SALOMON, which uses moonlight to make spectrographic measurements in the stratosphere.
    Neil Savage
    April 1, 2000
    The moon is proving to be a useful light source for spectroscopy in the stratosphere, a group of French researchers have found. Jean-Baptiste Renard and colleagues at the Centre...