Focus
Next-Generation Metrology
- Focus issue:
- April 2011 Volume 5 No 4 pp185-246
This focus issue brings together a collection of articles that describe the importance and latest progress of optical frequency combs, optical lattice clocks and quantum metrology, as well as techniques for measuring Casimir forces in complex microstructured geometries and ultrashort laser pulses — all of which are essential for realizing next-generation optical metrology.
Editorial
The next step for metrology - pp185
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.48
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Commentaries
Searching for applications with a fine-tooth comb - pp186 - 188
Nathan R. Newbury
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.38
Frequency combs — broadband phase-coherent optical sources — are finding an increasing number of new applications in the field of metrology.
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Measuring the seemingly immeasurable - pp189 - 192
Rick Trebino
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.41
This year celebrates the twentieth anniversary of frequency-resolved optical gating — the first and most general technique for measuring ultrashort laser pulses
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Interview
The impact of frequency combs - pp193
Interview with Theodor Hänsch
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.47
Frequency combs generated by femtosecond lasers are powerful tools for high-precision optical spectroscopy and metrology. Theodor Hänsch, who received part of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005 for his work in this field, spoke to Nature Photonics about how frequency combs have changed science.
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Reviews
Optical lattice clocks and quantum metrology - pp203 - 210
Hidetoshi Katori
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.45
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The Casimir effect in microstructured geometries - pp211 - 221
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Federico Capasso & Steven G. Johnson
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.39
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Advances in quantum metrology - pp222 - 229
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd & Lorenzo Maccone
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.35
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