| Issue |
Photoniques
Number 113, 2022
Optical Frequency Combs
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| Page(s) | 43 - 47 | |
| Section | FOCUS : Optical frequency combs | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/photon/202111343 | |
| Published online | 20 May 2022 | |
Optical frequency combs for atomic clocks and continental frequency dissemination
LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, F-75014, Paris, France
* e-mail: Rodolphe.LeTargat@obspm.fr
Nearly 25 years ago, Optical Frequency Combs (OFCs) have revolutionized practically from one day to the next the metrology of optical frequencies. Before that, only a few labs in the world could connect the optical (~1015 Hz) and the microwave (~1010 Hz) domains, at the price of the complex operation of a chain of multiple non-linear frequency conversions. In contrast, OFCs provided a tabletop instrument, compact, reliable and operable by a single scientist. Unmistakeable sign: only a few years had passed before pioneering inventors of OFCs Theodor Hänsch and John Hall were awarded the 2005 Nobel prize in Physics, together with Roy Glauber.
© The authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2022
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