A passion for precision
Abstract
For more than three decades, the quest for ever higher precision in laser spectroscopy of the simple hydrogen atom has inspired many advances in laser, optical, and spectroscopic techniques, culminating in femtosecond laser optical frequency combs as perhaps the most precise measuring tools known to man. Applications range from optical atomic clocks and tests of QED and relativity to searches for time variations of fundamental constants. Recent experiments are extending frequency comb techniques into the extreme ultraviolet. Laser frequency combs can also control the electric field of ultrashort light pulses, creating powerful new tools for the emerging field of attosecond science.
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- OSTI Identifier:
- 1025921
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- CERN
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; FEMTOSECOND LASER FREQUENCY COMBS; QED; HYDROGEN ATOM; FREQUENCY
Citation Formats
Hänsch, Theodor W. A passion for precision. CERN: N. p., 2010.
Web.
Hänsch, Theodor W. A passion for precision. CERN.
Hänsch, Theodor W. Wed .
"A passion for precision". CERN. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1025921.
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abstractNote = {For more than three decades, the quest for ever higher precision in laser spectroscopy of the simple hydrogen atom has inspired many advances in laser, optical, and spectroscopic techniques, culminating in femtosecond laser optical frequency combs as perhaps the most precise measuring tools known to man. Applications range from optical atomic clocks and tests of QED and relativity to searches for time variations of fundamental constants. Recent experiments are extending frequency comb techniques into the extreme ultraviolet. Laser frequency combs can also control the electric field of ultrashort light pulses, creating powerful new tools for the emerging field of attosecond science.},
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year = {Wed May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
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