Exploiting fibre-optic spectroscopic responses

Social Media is an interesting source of information on the whereabouts and activities of former colleagues. I was prompted about a change of role for Wieland Hill, a Raman spectroscopist and part of our Molecular Spectroscopic Methods
research team back in Dortmund before we all went our separate ways. I congratulated Wieland on his new role as a systems architect and looked forward to seeing his first new building! Wieland responded that he was working on novel Raman system architecture design rather than blocks of flats or fancy museums. This work seemed to be a really interesting use of spectroscopic data processing from optical fibre cables. Looking at his papers this is certainly something we have not covered in this column in the past and, therefore, suitable for this issue!