Optical frequency measurement is an extremely challenging field of experimental physics which is presently undergoing a renaissance driven by the needs of modern high density optical communication systems as well as by requirements of high-resolution laser spectroscopy. This text is the first to discuss the development of traditional and second generation frequency chains together with their enabling technology. Reviews written by some of the most experienced researchers in their respective fields address the technology of frequency metrology such as: low noise microwave oscillators and microwave frequency standards, low noise and high stability optical frequency sources, optical frequency standards, traditional and second-generation optical frequency measurement and synthesis techniques as well as optical frequency comb generators. It should prove useful to researchers just entering the field of frequency metrology or equally well to the experienced practitioner.
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Low-Noise and Ultrastable Secondary Frequency Standards. - Low-Noise Microwave Resonator-Oscillators: Current Status and Future Developments. - Ultrastable Cryogenic Microwave Oscillators. - Frequency-Temperature Compensation Techniques for High-Q Microwave Resonators. - Laser-Cooled Atom and Trapped-Ion Frequency Standards. - Optical Frequency Standards Based on Neutral Atoms and Molecules. - Cold-Atom Clocks on Earth and in Space. - Single-Ion Optical Frequency Standards and Measurement of their Absolute Optical Frequency. - Recent Developments in Microwave Ion Clocks. - Conventional Optical Frequency Measurement and Mid-Infrared Frequency Standards. - Optical Frequency Measurement by Conventional Frequency Multiplication. - Optical Frequency Measurements Relying on a Mid-Infrared Frequency Standard. - Advanced Optical Frequency Measurement and Synthesis. - Measuring the Frequency of Light with Mode-Locked Lasers. - Generation and Metrological Application of Optical Frequency Combs. - Generation of Expanded Optical Frequency Combs. - Accurate Optical-Frequency Synthesis.
