TY - JOUR AU - John Hall AU - Jun Ye AU - Scott Diddams AU - L.-S. Ma AU - Steven Cundiff AU - D. Jones AB - We now appreciate the fruit of decades of development in the independent fields of ultrasensitive spectroscopy, ultrastable lasers, ultrafast lasers, and nonlinear optics. But a new feature of the past two or three years is the explosion of interconnectedness between these fields, opening remarkable and unexpected progress in each, due to advances in the other fields. For brevity, we here focus mainly on the new possibilities in the field of optical frequency measurement. Index Terms—Femtosecond lasers, frequency control, frequency synthesizers, measurement, optical frequency comb, optical frequency measurement, stabilized laser. BT - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics DA - 2001-12 DO - 10.1109/3.970893 N2 - We now appreciate the fruit of decades of development in the independent fields of ultrasensitive spectroscopy, ultrastable lasers, ultrafast lasers, and nonlinear optics. But a new feature of the past two or three years is the explosion of interconnectedness between these fields, opening remarkable and unexpected progress in each, due to advances in the other fields. For brevity, we here focus mainly on the new possibilities in the field of optical frequency measurement. Index Terms—Femtosecond lasers, frequency control, frequency synthesizers, measurement, optical frequency comb, optical frequency measurement, stabilized laser. PY - 2001 SP - 1482 EP - 1492 T2 - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics TI - Ultrasensitive spectroscopy, the ultrastable lasers, the ultrafast lasers, and the seriously nonlinear fiber: a new alliance for physics and metrology UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=970893 VL - 37 SN - 00189197 ER -