Frequency Combs
Carrier-envelope
phase slip from pulse
to pulse because:
v
g
v
p
Time domain
Df
2Df
E
(
t
)
t
t
r.t
= 1/f
r
Frequency domain
I
(
f
)
f
o
f
r
It is critical to have an
octave spanning spectrum.
f
f
n
= nf
r
+ f
o
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).