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

Author

Hall, John L. ; Ye, Jun ; Diddams, Scott A. ; Ma, Long-Sheng ; Cundiff, Steven T. ; Jones, David J.

Author_Institution

JILA, Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

37

Issue

12

fYear

2001

fDate

12/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1482

Lastpage

1492

Abstract

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

Keywords

fibre optic sensors; frequency measurement; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; sensitivity; spectroscopy; femtosecond lasers; metrology; nonlinear fiber; nonlinear optics; optical frequency measurement; physics; ultrafast lasers; ultrasensitive spectroscopy; ultrastable lasers; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Laser stability; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical resonators; Optical variables control; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.970893

Filename

970893