Publications
Fiber-based Optical Frequency Synthesizers
Ti:Sa-based Optical Frequency Synthesizers
Optical Frequency Comb Technology
Phase Stabilization
Synchronization
Asynchronous Optical Sampling
Femtosecond Fiber Lasers
Fiber Laser-based Broadband Sources
Detectors
Fiber-based Optical Frequency Synthesizers
Cavity-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy
Bernhardt B, Ozawa A, Jacquet, Jacquey M, Kobayashi Y, Udem T, Holzwarth R, Guelachvili G, Hänsch TW, Picqué N
NATURE PHOTONICS 4 (1): 55/57 JAN 2010
Fabry-Pérot filter cavities for wide-spaced frequency combs with large spectral bandwidth
Steinmetz T, Wilken T, Araujo-Hauck C, Holzwarth R, Hänsch TW, Udem T
APPLIED PHYSICS B 96 (2-3): 251-256 AUG 2009 
Absolute frequency measurements on the 2S→3S transition of lithium-6,7
Sánchez R, Záková M, Andjelkovic Z, Bushaw BA, Dasgupta K, Ewald G, Geppert C, Kluge H-J, Krämer J, Nothhelfer M, Tiedemann D, Winters DFA, Nörteshäuser W
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 11 (073016): 1-19 JUL 2009
Analysis of the temporal coherence function of a femtosecond optical frequency comb
Wei D, Takahashi S, Takamasu K, Matsummoto H
OPTICS EXPRESS 17 (9): 7011-7018 APR 2009
Transportable optical frequency comb based on a mode-locked fibre laser
Walton BR, Margolis HS, Tsatourian V, Gill P
IET OPTOELECTRONICS 2 (5): 182-187 OCT 2008
Laser Frequency Combs for Astronomical Observations
Steinmetz T, Wilken T, Araujo-Hauck C, Holzwarth R, Hänsch TW., Pasquini L, Manescau A, D'Odorico S, Murphy MT, Kentischer T, Schmidt W, Udem T
SCIENCE 321 (5894): 1335-1337 5 SEP 2008
Absolute frequency measurement of molecular transitions by a direct link to a comb generated around 3-μm
Malara P, Maddaloni P, Gagliardi G, De Natale P
OPTICS EXPRESS 16 (11): 8242-8249 MAY 2008
Subhertz linewidth diode lasers by stabilization to vibrationally and thermally compensated ultralow-expansion glass Fabry-Perot cavities
Alnis J, Matveev A, Kolachevsky N, Udem T, Hansch TW
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 77 (5): 053809 MAY 2008
Absolute frequency measurement of an acetylene stabilized laser using a selected single mode from a femtosecond fiber laser comb
Ryu HY, Lee SH, Lee WK, Moon HS, Suh HS
OPTICS EXPRESS 16 (5): 2867-2873 MAR 2008
Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator
Del’Haye P, Schliesser A, Arcizet O, Wilken T, Holzwarth R, Kippenberg TJ
NATURE 450 (7173): 1214-1217 DEC 2007
Absolute frequency measurements and comparisons in iodine at 735 nm and 772 nm
Reinhardt S, Bernhardt B, Geppert C, Holzwarth R, Huber G, Karpuk S, Miski-Oglu N, Nortershauser W, Novotny C, Udem T
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS 274 (2): 354-360 JUN 2007
Mid-infrared fibre-based optical comb
Maddaloni P, Malara P, Gagliardi G, De Natale P
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 8 (262): 1-8 Nov 2006
Absolute frequency measurement of wavelength standard at 1542nm: acetylene stabilized DFB laser
Balling P, Fischer M, Kubina P, Holzwarth R
OPTICS EXPRESS 13 (23): 9196-9201 NOV 2005
Long term comparison of two fiber based frequency comb systems
Kubina P, Adel P, Adler F, Grosche G, Hänsch TW, Holzwarth R, Leitenstorfer A, Lipphardt B, Schnatz H
OPTICS EXPRESS 13 (3): 904-909 FEB 2005
Ti:Sa-based Optical Frequency Synthesizers
Evaluation of caesium atomic fountain NICT-CsFa1
Kumagai M, Ito H, Kajita M, Hosokawa M
METROLOGIA 45(2): 139-148 APR 2008
Exact frequency comb mode number determination in precision optical frequency measurements
Zhang J, Lu ZH, Wang YH, Liu T, Stejskal A, Zhao YN, Dumke R, Gong QH, Wang LJ
LASER PHYSICS 17 (7): 1025-1028 JUL 2007
Improved absolute frequency measurement of the 115In+ 5 s 2 1 S 0-5 s 5 p 3 P 0 narrowline transition: Progress towards an optical frequency standard
Wang YH, Liu T, Dumke R, Stejskal A, Zhao YN, Zhang J, Lu ZH, Wang LJ, Becker Th, Walther H
LASER PHYSICS 17 (7): 1017-1024 JUL 2007
Absolute frequency measurement and high resolution spectroscopy of In-115(+) 5s(2) S-1(0)-5s5p P-3(0) narrowline transition
Wang YH, Dumke R, Liu T, Stejskal A, Zhao YN, Zhang J, Lu ZH, Wang LJ, Becker T, Walther H
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS 273 (2): 526-531 MAY 2007
Frequency comb-referenced narrow line width diode laser system for coherent molecular spectroscopy
Doringshoff K, Ernsting I, Rinkleff RH, Schiller S, Wicht A
APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS 91 (1): 49-56 APR 2008
Absolute frequency and isotope shift measurements of the cooling transition in singly ionized indium
Wang YH, Dumke R, Zhang J, Liu T, Stejskal A, Zhao YN, Lu ZH, Wang LJ, Becker Th, Walther H
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D 44 (2): 307-311 AUG 2007
Direct frequency counting with enhanced beat signal-to-noise ratio for absolute frequency measurement of a He-Ne/I-2 laser at 633 nm
Lee WK, Yee DS, Suh HS
APPLIED OPTICS 46 (6): 930-934 FEB 2007
Results from additional measurements carried out within the BIPM.L-K11 ongoing key comparison
Robertsson L, Zucco M, Felder R, Ma LS, Quin J, Liu X, Liu Z, Inaba H, Ishikawa J, Hamid R
METROLOGIA 44 (04004) 2007
Application of frequency combs in the measurement of the refractive index of air
Zhang J, Lu ZH, Menegozzi B, Wang LJ
REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 77 (8): Art. No. 083104 AUG 2006
Determination of the antiproton-to-electron mass ratio by precision laser spectroscopy of (p)over-barHe(+)
Hori M, Dax A, Eades J, Gomikawa K, Hayano RS, Ono N, Pirkl W, Widmann E, Tori HA, Juhasz B, Barna D, Horvath D
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 96 (24): 243401 JUN 2006
10(-12) level reproducibility of an iodine-stabilized He-Ne laser endorsed by absolute frequency measurements in the BIPM and UME
Hamid R, Sabin E, Celik M, Ozen G, Zucco M, Robertsson L, Ma LS
METROLOGIA 43 (1): 106-108 FEB 2006
Precision measurement of the refractive index of air with frequency combs
Zhang J, Lu ZH, Wang LJ
OPTICS LETTERS 30 (24): 3314-3316 DEC 2005
Frequency-comb-based absolute frequency measurements in the mid-infrared with a difference-frequency spectrometer
Mazzotti D, Cancio P, Giusfredi G, De Natale P, Prevedelli M
OPTICS LETTERS 30 (9): 997-999 MAY 2005
Absolute frequency measurements of the 2(3)S(1)-> 2(3)P(0,1,2) atomic helium transitions around 1083 nm
Pastor PC, Giusfredi G, De Natale P, Hagel G, de Mauro C, Inguscio M
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 92 (2): 023001 JAN 2004
Precision frequency measurement of visible intercombination lines of strontium
Ferrari G, Cancio P, Drullinger R, Giusfredi G, Poli N, Prevedelli M, Toninelli C, Tino GM
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 91 (24): Art. No. 243002 DEC 2003
Optical Frequency Comb Technology
Passion for precision (Nobel Lecture)
Hänsch TW
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 78 (4): 1297-1309 OCT-DEC 2006
Precision spectroscopy of hydrogen and femtosecond laser frequency combs
Hansch TW, Alnis J, Fendel P, Fischer M, Gohle C, Herrmann M, Holzwarth R, Kolachevsky N, Udem T, Zimmermann M
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 363 (1834): 2155-2163 SEP 2005
Frequency measurement of a Sr lattice clock using an SI-second-referenced optical frequency comb linked by a global positioning system (GPS)
Hong FL, Takamoto M, Higashi R, Fukuyama Y, Jiang J, Katori H
OPTICS EXPRESS 13 (14): 5253-5262 JUL 2005
Cold atoms and quantum control
Chu S
NATURE 416 (6877): 206-210 MAR 2002
Optical frequency metrology
Udem T, Holzwarth R, Hänsch TW
NATURE 416 (6877): 233-237 MAR 2002
Phase Stabilization
Closed-loop carrier-envelope phase stabilization with an acousto-optic programmable dispersive filter
Forget N, Canove L, Chen X, Jullien A, Lopez-Martens R
OPTICS LETTERS 34 (23): 3647-3649 DEC 1 2009
Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of a multi-millijoule, regenerative-amplifier-based chirped-pulse-amplifier system
Fordell T, Miranda M, Persson A, L'Huillier A
OPTICS EXPRESS 17 (23): 21091-21097 NOV 4 2009
Few-cycle oscillator pulse train with constant carrier-envelope-phase and 65 as jitter
Rausch S, Binhammer T, Harth A, Schulz A, Siegel M, Morgner U
OPTICS EXPRESS 17 (22): 20282-20290 OCT 22 2009
Carrier-envelope phase stabilization and control using a transmission grating compressor and an AOPDF
Canove L, Chen X, Trisorio A, Jullien A, Assion A, Tempea G, Forget N, Oksenhendler T, Lopez-Martens R
OPTICS LETTERS 34 (9): 1333-1335 MAY 2009
Characterization of the supercontinuum radiation generated by self-focusing of few-cycle 800 nm pulses in argon
Kosma K, Trushi SA, Fuß W, Schmid WE
JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS 55 (13): 2141-2177 JUL 2008
Attosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter
Cavalieri AL, Müller N, Uphues Th, Yakovlev AS, Baltuska A, Horvath B, Schmidt B, Blümel L, Holzwarth R, Hendel S, Drescher M, Kleinberg U, Echenique PM, Kienberger R, Krausz F, Heinzmann U
NATURE 449 (7165): 1029-1032 OCT 25 2007
Half-cycle cutoffs in harmonic spectra and robust carrier-envelope phase retrieval
Haworth CA, Chipperfield LE, Robinson JS, Knight PL, Marangos JP, Tisch JWG
NATURE PHYSICS 3 (1): 52-57 JAN 2007
Intense 1.5-cycle near infrared laser waveforms and their use for the generation of ultra-broadband soft-x-ray harmonic continua
Cavalieri AL, Goulielmakis E, Horvath B, Helml W, Schultze M, Fieß M, Pervak V, Veisz L, Yakovlev VS, Uiberacker M, Apolonski A, Krausz F, Kienberger R
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 9 (242): 1-12 JUL 31 2007
Ultrafast Electron Pulses from a Tungsten Tip Triggered by Low-Power Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Hommelhoff P, Kealhofer C, Kasevich MA
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 97 (24): 247402-1-4 DEC 15 2006
Precision control of carrier-envelope phase in grating based chirped pulse amplifiers
Li C, Moon E, Mashiko H, Nakamura CM, Ranitovic P, Maharjan, Cocke CL, Chang Z
OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (23): 11468-11476 NOV 13 2006
Reduction of fast carrier-envelope phase jitter in femtosecond laser amplifiers
Moon E, Li C, Duan J, Tackett J, Corwin KL, Washburn BR, Chang Z
OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (21): 9758-9763 OCT 16 2006
Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of high-contrast femtosecond laser pulses with a relativistic intensity
Hong K-H, Lee J, Hou B, Nees JA, Power E, Mourou GA
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 89 (3): 031113-1-3 JUL 17 2006
Distinctive physical effects and applications approaching the relativistic lambda-cubed regime
Nees J, Hou BX, Bowes BT, Naumova N, Mordovanakis A, Power E, Downer MC, Mourou G
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS 12 (2): 223-232 MAR-APR 2006
Attosecond control of optical waveforms
Fuji T, Rauschenberger J, Gohle C, Apolonski A, Udem T, Yakovlev VS, Tempea G, Hansch TW, Krausz F
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 7: Art. No. 116 MAY 3 2005
Monolithic carrier-envelope phase-stabilization scheme
Fuji T, Rauschenberger J, Apolonski A, Yakovlev VS, Tempea G, Udem T, Gohle C, Hansch TW, Lehnert W, Scherer M, Krausz F
OPTICS LETTERS 30 (3): 332-334 FEB 1 2005
Phase-preserving chirped-pulse optical parametric amplification to 17.3 fs directly from a Ti : sapphire oscillator
Hauri CP, Schlup P, Arisholm G, Biegert J, Keller U
OPTICS LETTERS 29 (12): 1369-1371 JUN 15 2004
Phase-controlled amplification of few-cycle laser pulses
Baltuska A, Uiberacker M, Goulielmakis E, Kienberger R, Yakovlev VS, Udem T, Hansch TW, Krausz F
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS 9 (4): 972-989 JUL-AUG 2003
Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields
Baltuska A, Udem T, Uiberacker M, Hentschel M, Goulielmakis E, Gohle C, Holzwarth R, Yakoviev VS, Scrinzi A, Hansch TW, Krausz F
NATURE 421 (6923): 611-615 FEB 6 2003
Synchronization
Optical Synchronizations Systems for Femtosecond X-Ray Sources
Wilcox R, Staples JW, Holzwarth R.
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the: 3958- 3960, 16-20 May 2005
Asynchronous Optical Sampling
Wideband detection of transient solid-state dynamics using ultrafast fiber lasers and asynchronous optical sampling
Stoica VA, Sheu YM, Reis DA, Clarke R
OPTICS EXPRESS 16 (4): 2322-2335 FEB 18 2008
Femtosecond Fiber Lasers
Optical sampling by laser cavity tuning
Hochrein T, Wilk R, Mei M, Holzwarth R, Krumbholz N, Koch M
OPTICS EXPRESS 18 (2): 1613-1617 JAN 13 2010
THz photomixing synthesizer based on a fiber frequency comb
Mouret G, Hindle F, Cuisset A, Yang C, Bocquet R, Lours M, Rovera D
OPTICS EXPRESS 17 (24): 22031-22040 NOV 23 2009
Two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging of intracellular chloride in cockroach salivary glands
Hille C, Lahn M, Löhmannsröben H-G, Dosche C
PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 8 (3): MAR 2009
Photonic subsampling analog-to-digital conversion of microwave signals at 40-GHz with higher than 7-ENOB resolution
Kim J, Park MJ, Perrott MH, Kärtner FX
OPTICS EXPRESS 16 (21) 16509-16515 OCT 13 2008
Time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging for intracellular pH sensing in living tissues
Hille C, Berg M, Bressel L, Munzke D, Primus P, Lohmannsroben HG, Dosche C
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 391 (5): 1871-1879 JUL 2008
All-fiber terahertz time-domain spectrometer operating at 1.5 µm telecom wavelengths
Sartorius B, Roehle H, Kunzel H, Bottcher J, Schlak M, Stanze D, Venghaus H, Schell M
OPTICS EXPRESS 16 (13): 9565-9570 JUN 23 2008
High-accuracy absolute distance measurement using frequency comb referenced multiwavelength source
Salvade Y, Schuhler N, Leveque S, Le Floch S
APPLIED OPTICS 47 (14): 2715-2720 MAY 10 2008
Microanalytical nonlinear single-beam spectroscopy combining an unamplified femtosecond fibre laser, pulse shaping and interferometry
von Vacano B, Rehbinder J, Buckup T, Motzkus M
APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS 91 (2): 213-217 MAY 2008
Demonstration of carrier envelope offset locking with low pulse energy
Ishizawa A, Nishikawa T, Aozasa S, Mori A, Tadanaga O, Asobe M, Nakano H
OPTICS EXPRESS 16 (7): 4706-4712 MAR 31 2008
Attosecond-resolution timing jitter characterization of free-running mode-locked lasers
Kim J, Chen J, Cox J, Kärtner FX
OPTICS LETTERS 32 (24): 3519-3521 DEC 15 2007
Frequency-comb referenced two-wavelength source for absolute distance measurement
Schuhler N, Salvadé Y, Lévêque S, Dändliker R, Holzwarth R
OPTICS LETTERS 31 (21): 3101-3103 NOV 1 2006
Extremely simple device for measuring 1.5-mu m ultrashort laser pulses
Akturk S, Kimmel M, Trebino R
OPTICS EXPRESS 12 (19): 4483-4489 SEP 20 2004
Quantum interference with photon pairs created in spatially separated sources
de Riedmatten H, Marcikic I, Tittel W, Zbinden H, Gisin N
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 67 (2): Art. No. 022301 FEB 2003
Fiber Laser-based Broadband Sources
Optical coherence tomography: a review of clinical development from bench to bedside
Zysk AM, Nguyen FT, Oldenburg AL, Marks DL, Boppart SA
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 12 (5): 051403-1-21 SEP 2007
Needle-based reflection refractometry of scattering samples using coherence-gated detection
Zysk AM, Marks DL, Liu DY, Boppart SA
OPTICS EXPRESS 15 (8): 4787-4794 APR 16 2007
Modeling of broadband light source to use with optical coherent tomography system
Maciejewski M, Plucinski J, Kosmowski BB, Strakowski M, Jedrzejewska-Szczerska M, Hypszer R
Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6159 Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments IV, Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Editor, 61593G (Apr. 26, 2006)
In vivo detection of exercise-induced ultrastructural changes in genetically-altered murine skeletal muscle using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography
Pasquesi JJ, Schlachter SC, Boppart MD, Chaney E, Kaufman SJ, Boppart SA
OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (4): 1547-1556 FEB 20 2006
Imaging ex vivo and in vitro brain morphology in animal models with ultrahigh resolution optical coher-ence tomography
Bizheva K, Unterhuber A, Hermann B, Povazay B, Sattmann H, Drexler W, Stingl A, Le T, Mei M, Holzwarth R, Reitsamer HA, Morgan JE, Cowey A
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 9 (4): 719-724 JUL-AUG 2004
Ultra-large bandwidth hollow-core guiding in all-silica Bragg fibers with nano-supports
Vienne G, Xu Y, Jakobsen C, Deyerl HJ, Jensen JB, Sorensen T, Hansen TP, Huang YY, Terrel M, Lee RK, Mortensen NA, Broeng J, Simonsen H, Bjarklev A, Yariv A
OPTICS EXPRESS 12 (15): 3500-3508 JUL 26 2004
Advances in broad bandwidth light sources for ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography
Unterhuber A, Povazay B, Bizheva K, Hermann B, Sattmann H, Stingl A, Le T, Seefeld M, Menzel R, Preusser M, Budka H, Schubert C, Reitsamer H, Ahnelt PK, Morgan JE, Cowey A, Drexler W
PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 49 (7): 1235-1246 APR 7 2004
Enhanced visualization of choroidal vessels using ultrahigh resolution ophthalmic OCT at 1050 nm
Povazay B, Bizheva K, Hermann B, Unterhuber A, Sattmann H, Fercher AF, Drexler W, Schubert C, Ahnelt PK, Mei M, Holzwarth R, Wadsworth WJ, Knight JC, Russel PS
OPTICS EXPRESS 11 (17): 1980-1986 AUG 25 2003
Compact, broad-bandwidth fiber laser for sub-2-mu m axial resolution optical coherence tomography in the 1300-nm wavelength region
Bizheva K, Povazay B, Hermann B, Sattmann H, Drexler W, Mei M, Holzwarth R, Hoelzenbein T, Wacheck V, Pehamberger H
OPTICS LETTERS 28 (9): 707-709 MAY 1 2003
Imaging brain morphology with ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography
Bizheva K, Hermann B, Pova?ay B, Sattmann H, Mei M, Holzwarth R, Kempe M, Zimmermann B, Reit-samer H, Fercher AF, Drexler W
Coherence Domain Optical Methods and Optical Coherence Tomography in Biomedicine, EBIOS 2003
Detectors
High bandwidth underwater optical communication
Hanson F, Radic S
APPLIED OPTICS 47 (2): 277-283 JAN 10 2008
Spectroscopic near-field microscopy using frequency combs in the mid-infrared
Brehm M, Schliesser A, Keilmann F
OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (23): 11222-11233 NOV 13 2006
Finesse and sensitivity gain in cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy of biomolecules in solution
McGarvey T, Conjusteau A, Mabuchi H
OPTICS EXPRESS 14 (22): 10441-10451 OCT 30 32006
Detection of mid-IR radiation by sum frequency generation for free space optical communication
Karstad K, Stefanov A, Wegmuller M, Zbinden H, Gisin N, Aellen T, Beck M, Faist J
OPTICS AND LASERS IN ENGINEERING 43 (3-5): 537-544 MAR-MAY 2005