Optical Frequency Standards : Progress and Applications
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A number of individual small advances, taken together, bring us to the beginning of a new domain of optical frequency stability, reproducibility, and measurement. Particular advances include the refinement of Noise-Immune Cavity-Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Molecular Spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS), especially by active control of the residual AM produced by a phase modulator, and by improvement of the PZT’s HV amplifier noise and stability. Replacing a mirror of a Kurogi comb generator by a selective output filter provides a frequency-displacement capability that will be very helpful in realizing a “Divide and Conquer” optical frequency synthesis chain.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013