Title: Optical Frequency Synthesizer for Precision Spectroscopy
Abstract: We have used the frequency comb generated by a femtosecond mode-locked laser and broadened to more than an optical octave in a photonic crystal fiber to realize a frequency chain that links a 10 MHz radio frequency reference phase-coherently in one step to the optical region. By comparison with a similar frequency chain we set an upper limit for the uncertainty of this new approach to 5. 1x10(-16). This opens the door for measurement and synthesis of virtually any optical frequency and is ready to revolutionize frequency metrology.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-09-11
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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