Overview
- Editors:
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Jun Ye
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Steven T. Cundiff
Provides a general coverage of the fantastic progress in the past few years on ultrawide bandwidth optical frequency combs and their applications to ultrafast science, frequency metrology, and precision spectroscopy
All major international groups that have had great impacts on the field will be included, and the book will provide a broad yet authoritative coverage of a diverse set of topics
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Jun Ye, Steven T. Cundiff
Pages 12-53
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- Franz X. Kärtner, Erich P. Ippen, Steven T. Cundiff
Pages 54-77
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- Alexander L. Gaeta, Robert S. Windeler
Pages 97-111
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- Günter Steinmeyer, Ursula Keller
Pages 112-132
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- Thomas Udem, Marcus Zimmermann, Ronald Holzwarth, Marc Fischer, Nikolai Kolachevsky, Theodor W. Hänsch
Pages 176-197
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- Harald Schnatz, Jörn Stenger, Burghard Lipphardt, Nils Haverkamp, Carl-Otto Weiss
Pages 198-224
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- Scott A. Diddams, Jun Ye, Leo Hollberg
Pages 225-262
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- Andrius Baltuška, Gerhard G. Paulus, Fabrizio Lindner, Reinhard Kienberger, Ferenc Krausz
Pages 263-313
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- Emily Gibson, Ivan Christov, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn
Pages 314-332
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- Jean-Claude Diels, R. Jason Jones, Ladan Arissian
Pages 333-354
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Back Matter
Pages 355-361
About this book
Over the last few years, there has been a convergence between the fields of ultrafast science, nonlinear optics, optical frequency metrology, and precision laser spectroscopy. These fields have been developing largely independently since the birth of the laser, reaching remarkable levels of performance. On the ultrafast frontier, pulses of only a few cycles long have been produced, while in optical spectroscopy, the precision and resolution have reached one part in Although these two achievements appear to be completely disconnected, advances in nonlinear optics provided the essential link between them. The resulting convergence has enabled unprecedented advances in the control of the electric field of the pulses produced by femtosecond mode-locked lasers. The corresponding spectrum consists of a comb of sharp spectral lines with well-defined frequencies. These new techniques and capabilities are generally known as “femtosecond comb technology. ” They have had dramatic impact on the diverse fields of precision measurement and extreme nonlinear optical physics. The historical background for these developments is provided in the Foreword by two of the pioneers of laser spectroscopy, John Hall and Theodor Hänsch. Indeed the developments described in this book were foreshadowed by Hänsch’s early work in the 1970s when he used picosecond pulses to demonstrate the connection between the time and frequency domains in laser spectroscopy. This work complemented the advances in precision laser stabilization developed by Hall.
