BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

In the past decade we have witnessed remarkable advances associated with the frequency
stabilization of the comb present in the output of a mode-locked femtosecond laser. While …

More than any other book I know, Corney's new book Atomic and Laser Spectroscopy
provides a survey of atomic physics with the depth and scope appropriate to people who are …

Four long-running currents in laser technology met and merged in 1999–2000. Two of these
were the quest toward a stable repetitive sequence of ever-shorter optical pulses and, on the …

Precision time references in space are of major importance to satellite-based fundamental
science, global satellite navigation, earth observation, and satellite formation flying. Here we …

The sodium D resonance lines have been studied in saturated absorption with a repetitively
pulsed tunable dye laser. The hyperfine splitting of the 3 S 1 2 2 and 3 P 1 2 2 states of Na …

Nonlinear optics has been a rapidly growing field in recent decades. It is based on the study
of effects and phenomena related to the interaction of intense coherent light radiation with …

This review describes the methods of trap** cold atoms in electromagnetic fields and in
the combined electromagnetic and gravity fields. We discuss first the basic types of the …

A general theory of the saturated-absorption phenomenon in a two-level atomic system is
developed, in which the phase relationships between the oscillating atomic dipoles as well …

The frequency and wavelength of the methane-stabilized laser at 3.39 μm were directly
measured against the respective primary standards. With infrared frequency synthesis …