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Phase Controlled Femtosecond Lasers for Sensitive, Precise, and Wide Bandwidth Nonlinear Spectroscopy

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Recent progress in precision control of pulse repetition rate and carrier-envelope phase of ultrafast lasers has established a strong connection between optical frequency metrology and ultrafast science. A wide range of applications has ensued, including measurement of absolute optical frequencies, precision laser spectroscopy, optical atomic clocks, and optical frequency synthesis in the frequency-domain, along with pulse timing stabilization, coherent synthesis of optical pulses, and phase-sensitive extreme nonlinear optics in the time-domain. In this chapter we discuss the impact of the femtosecond optical frequency comb to atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Measurements performed in the frequency-domain provide a global picture of atomic and molecular structure at high precision while providing radio-frequency clock signals derived from optical standards. Time-domain analysis and experiments give us new possibilities for nonlinear optical spectroscopy and sensitive detections with real-time information.

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  1. JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0440, USA

    Jun Ye

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  1. Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia

    Peter Hannaford

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Ye, J. (2005). Phase Controlled Femtosecond Lasers for Sensitive, Precise, and Wide Bandwidth Nonlinear Spectroscopy. In: Hannaford, P. (eds) Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23294-X_1

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