Nobel Lecture: Defining and measuring optical frequencies

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Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules (2017, background): “ing laser cooling and trapping of atoms, attainment of Bose-Einstein condensation, optical frequency combs and quantum control - subject of Nobel Prizes in Physics in 1997 (Chu, 1998; Cohen-Tannoudji, 1998; Phillips, 1998), 2001 (Cornell and Wieman, 2002; Ketterle, 2002), 2005 (Glauber, 2006; Hall, ”
Optical data transmission at 44Tb/s and 10 bits/s/Hz over the C-band with standard fibre and a single micro-comb source (2020, background): “Soliton crystal generation was achieved by automated wavelength tuning (described further in the Supplementary Material), in turn reducing the system complexity compared to other micro-comb generation schemes (see [6] and references within).”
Cavity-enhanced direct frequency comb spectroscopy (2008, background): “An optical frequency comb (OFC) [1–8] can be defined in the frequency domain as a series of narrow, equally spaced lines with a known, and controllable, optical frequency and a well-defined phase relationship between them.”