Ultrasensitive spectroscopy, the ultrastable lasers, the ultrafast lasers, and the seriously nonlinear fiber: A new alliance for physics and metrology

被引:64
作者
Hall, JL [1 ]
Ye, J [1 ]
Diddams, SA [1 ]
Ma, LS [1 ]
Cundiff, ST [1 ]
Jones, DJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
femtosecond lasers; frequency control; frequency synthesizers; measurement; optical frequency comb; optical frequency measurement; stabilized laser;
D O I
10.1109/3.970893
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We now appreciate the fruit of decades of development in the independent fields of ultrasensitive spectroscopy, ultrastable lasers, ultrafast lasers, and nonlinear optics. But a new feature of the past two or three years is the explosion of interconnectedness between these fields, opening remarkable and unexpected progress in each, due to advances in the other fields. For brevity, we here focus mainly on the new possibilities in the field of optical frequency measurement.
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页码:1482 / 1492
页数:11
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