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We performed an absolute frequency measurement of the ¹S0-³P0 transition in 87Sr with a fractional uncertainty of 1.2 x 10-15, which is less than one-third that of our previous measurement. A caesium fountain atomic clock was used as a transfer oscillator to reduce the uncertainty of the link between a strontium optical lattice clock and the SI second. The absolute value of the transition frequency is 429 228 004 229 873.56(49) Hz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an all-optically stabilized, erbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser with an optically pumped ytterbium-doped fiber. The mode-locked fiber laser has two frequency-control actuators that are pump laser powers for erbium-doped and ytterbium-doped fibers. We investigate the frequency-control characteristics of the mode-locked laser and find that the fixed points for the two actuators are sufficiently apart from each other, realizing the simultaneous phase locking of the repetition and carrier envelope offset frequencies. We describe a long-term frequency measurement of an acetylene-stabilized laser at 1542 nm using an all-optically stabilized frequency comb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose simple schemes to phase-lock the carrier envelope offset frequency (fceo) referring to the repetition rate (frep) of an optical frequency comb. We demonstrate the locking of fceo such that fceo = (1/2)frep, (1/3)frep, and (2/3)frep. The Allan deviation and signal-to-noise ratio of the coherent δ-function peak for the in-loop beat signal are 5.3 × 10−17/τ and 80–85 dB·Hz, respectively, where τ is the averaging time of the frequency measurement. These new locking schemes simplify the sign and mode-number determination in frequency measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have carried out dual-comb spectroscopy and observed in a simultaneous acquisition a 140-THz-wide spectrum from 1.0 to 1.9 µm using two fiber-based frequency combs phase-locked to each other. This ultrabroad-wavelength bandwidth is realized by setting the difference between the repetition rates of the two combs to 7.6 Hz using the sub-Hz-linewidth fiber combs. The recorded spectrum contains five vibration-rotation bands of C2H2, CH4, and H2O at different wavelengths across the whole spectrum. The determined transition frequencies of C2H2 agree with those from the previous sub-Doppler resolution measurement of individual lines using CW lasers within 2 MHz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We demonstrate that dual-comb spectroscopy, which allows one to record broadband spectra with high frequency accuracy in a relatively short time, provides a real advantage for the observation of pressure-broadening and pressure-shift effects. We illustrate this with the ν1+ν3 vibration band of 12C2H2. We observe transitions from P(26) to R(29), which extend over a 3.8 THz frequency range, at six pressures ranging up to 2654 Pa. Each observed absorption line profile is fitted to a Voigt function yielding pressure-broadening and pressure-shift coefficients for each rotation-vibration transition. The effectiveness of this technique is such that we are able to discern a clear dependence of the pressure-broadening coefficients on the nuclear spin state, i.e., on the ortho or para modification. This information, combined with the pressure-shift coefficients, can facilitate a detailed understanding of the mechanism of molecular collisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]