TY - JOUR
AU - Scott Diddams
AU - D. Jones
AU - Jun Ye
AU - Steven Cundiff
AU - John Hall
AU - J. Ranka
AU - R. Windeler
AU - Ronald Holzwarth
AU - Thomas Udem
AU - T. Hänsch
AB - We demonstrate a great simplification in the long-standing problem of measuring optical frequencies in terms of the cesium primary standard. An air-silica microstructure optical fiber broadens the frequency comb of a femtosecond laser to span the optical octave from 1064 to 532 nm, enabling us to measure the 282 THz frequency of an iodine-stabilized Nd:YAG laser directly in terms of the microwave frequency that controls the comb spacing. Additional measurements of established optical frequencies at 633 and 778 nm using the same femtosecond comb confirm the accepted uncertainties for these standards.
BT - Physical Review Letters
DA - 2000-05
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5102
N2 - We demonstrate a great simplification in the long-standing problem of measuring optical frequencies in terms of the cesium primary standard. An air-silica microstructure optical fiber broadens the frequency comb of a femtosecond laser to span the optical octave from 1064 to 532 nm, enabling us to measure the 282 THz frequency of an iodine-stabilized Nd:YAG laser directly in terms of the microwave frequency that controls the comb spacing. Additional measurements of established optical frequencies at 633 and 778 nm using the same femtosecond comb confirm the accepted uncertainties for these standards.
PY - 2000
SP - 5102
EP - 5105
T2 - Physical Review Letters
TI - Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb
VL - 84
SN - 0031-9007
ER -