Frequency comb laser spectroscopy at vacuum-ultraviolet wavelengths and beyond

Author

Zinkstok, R. Th ; Witte, S. ; Reanault, A. ; Kandula, D. ; Wolf, A.L. ; Ubachs, W. ; Hogervorst, W. ; Eikema, K.S.E.

Author_Institution

Laser Centre, Vrije Univ., Amsterdam

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

An alternative technique for precision spectroscopy, that is rapidly gaining interest, is direct excitation of atomic transitions with a train of pulses from a frequency comb laser. As the high peak intensity of such ultrashort pulses allows efficient upconversion of an infrared frequency comb output to higher frequencies, it seems very promising for extending high-resolution spectroscopy to the VUV and XUV spectral region.

Keywords

atom-photon collisions; measurement by laser beam; optical frequency conversion; photoexcitation; quantum optics; ultraviolet spectroscopy; atomic transition excitation; frequency comb laser spectroscopy; infrared frequency comb upconversion; ultrashort pulses; vacuum-ultraviolet wavelengths; Frequency; Interference; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0930-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4387058

Filename

4387058