• DocumentCode
    2669545
  • Title

    Femtosecond technology for optical clocks

  • Author

    Ippen, E.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachussetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. This talk will describe recent progress toward developing novel femtosecond laser and nonlinear optical components, generating shorter pulses, producing frequency combs at different wavelengths, controlling pulse timing and optical phase, and locking femtosecond lasers with attosecond precision.
  • Keywords
    frequency measurement; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; measurement by laser beam; nonlinear optics; attosecond precision; femtosecond laser; femtosecond laser locking; femtosecond technology; frequency combs; nonlinear optical components; optical clocks; optical phase; pulse timing; shorter pulses; Clocks; Computer science; Frequency; Laboratories; Laser theory; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical pulse generation; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS. Postconference Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-749-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2003.238328
  • Filename
    1276251