Frequency Combs
Carrier-envelope
phase slip from pulse
to pulse because:
vg vp
Time domain
Df
2Df
E(t)
t
tr.t  = 1/fr
Frequency domain
I(f)
fo
fr
It is critical to have an
octave spanning spectrum.
f
fn = nfr + fo
0
Supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber preserves frequency comb.
T. Udem, J. Reichert, R. Holzwarth, and T.W. Hänsch, OL 24,
881, (1999).
D. J. Jones, et al. Science 288, 635 (2000).