BIPM - length

The BIPM's Length Section closed at the end of 2005. Activities on frequency combs, iodine cells, gravimetry and nanometrology were transferred to the new Time, Frequency and Gravimetry Section.

>> See also publications of the Time, Frequency and Gravimetry Section

2005

Felder R., Practical realization of the definition of the metre including recommended radiations of other optical frequency standards (2003), Metrologia, 2005, 42(4), 323-325

Jiang Y., Bi Z., Robertsson L., Ma L.-S., A collinear self-referencing set-up for control of the carrier-envelope offset frequency in Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser frequency combs, Metrologia, 2005, 42(4), 304-307

Ma L.-S., Bi Z., Bartels A., Robertsson L, Zucco M., Windeler R. Wilpers G., Oates C., Hollberg L., Diddams S., Femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers with uncertainty at the 10^–19 level, Proc. 14th Int. Conf. Ultrafast Phenomena (Niigata, Japan, 25-30 July 2004), Springer, 2005, 837-839

Ma L.-S., Bi Z., Bartels A., Robertsson L., Zucco M., Windeler R.S., Wilpers G., Oates C., Hollberg L., Diddams S.A., International comparisons of femtosecond laser frequency combs, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2005, 54(2), 746-749

Notcutt M., Ma L.-S., Ye J., Hall J.L., Simple and compact 1-Hz laser system via an improved mounting configuration of a reference cavity, Opt. Lett., 2005, 30, 1815-1817

Robertsson L., Absolute gravimetry in a shifted Legendre basis, Metrologia, 2005, 42(5), 458-463

Robertsson L., Zucco M., Ma L.-S., Henningsen J., Hald J., Bandis C., Duta A., Boiciuc D., Georgescu D., Fira R., Dorsic P., Results from the CI-2005 campaign at the BIPM of the BIPM.L-K11 ongoing key comparison, Metrologia, 2005, 42, Tech. Suppl., 04004

Robertsson L., Zucco M., Ma L.-S., Jin Q., Liu X., Liu Z., Wallerand J.-P., Van den Berg S., Johansson R., Skoogh H., Results from the CII-2004 campaign at the BIPM of the BIPM.L-K11 ongoing key comparison, Metrologia, 2005, 42, Tech. Suppl., 04003

Robertsson L., Zucco M., Ma L.-S., Terra O., Saraiva F., Gentil S., Chekirda C., Zakharenko Y., Fedorin V., Mostert L., Results from the CI-2004 campaign at the BIPM of the BIPM.L-K11 ongoing key comparison, Metrologia, 2005, 42, Tech. Suppl., 04002

Vitushkin L.F., Orlov O.A., A compact frequency-stabilized Nd:YVO₄/KTP/I₂ laser at 532 nm for laser interferometry and wavelength standards, Proc. SPIE: Optical Measurement Systems for Industrial Inspection IV, 2005, 5856, 281-286

Vitushkin. L.F., Current status and perspectives in development of instrumentation and metrology in absolute gravimetry, Conference abstracts: "Fundamental and applied time-coordinate measurements, KVO-2005", Institute for Applied Astronomy, 2005, 131-132

2004

Ma L.-S., Bi Z., Bartels A., Robertsson L., Zucco M., Windeler R.S., Wilpers G., Oates C., Hollberg L., Diddams S.A., Optical frequency synthesis and comparison with uncertainty at the 10^–19 level, Science, 2004, 303(5665), 1843-1845

Ma L.-S., Picard S., Zucco M., Chartier J.-M., Robertsson L., Windeler R.S., Direct measurement of the absolute frequency of the international reference laser BIPM4, Metrologia, 2004, 41(1), 65-68

Ma L.-S., Robertsson L, Zucco M., Bi Z., Windeler R.S. Bartels A., Wilpers G., Oates C., Hollberg L., Diddams S.A., Precision test of femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers, CLEO Digest, 2004, CMW6 (2 pp)

Ma L.S., Picard S., Zucco M., Chartier J.-M., Robertsson L., Balling P., Kren P., Qian J., Liu Z., Shi C., Viliesid Alonso M., Xu G., Tan S.L., Nyholm K., Henningsen J., Hald J., Windeler R., Absolute frequency measurement of the b₁₀ component of the R(106) 28-0 transitions in ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 543 nm, Rapport BIPM-2004/16, 4 pp

Ma L.S., Robertsson L., Picard S., Zucco M., Bi Z., Wu S., Windeler R.S., First international comparison of femtosecond laser combs at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Opt. Lett., 2004, 29(6), 641-643

Madej A.A., Bernard J.E., Robertsson L., Ma L.-S., Zucco M., Windeler R.S., Long Term Absolute Frequency Measurements of 633 nm Iodine Stabilized Laser Standards at NRC and Demonstration of High Reproducibility of such devices in International Frequency Measurements, Metrologia, 2004, 41(3), 152-160

Mücke O.D., Kuzucu O., Wong F.N.C., Ippen E.P., Kärtner F.X., Foreman S.M., Jones D.J., Ma L.-S., Hall J.L., Ye J., Experimental implementation of optical clockwork without carrier-envelope phase control, Opt. Lett., 2004, 29, 2806-2808

2003

Becker M., Jiang Z., Vitushkin L., Adjustment of Gravity Measurements at the Sixth International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters ICAG-2001, Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie, Proceedings of the Workshop: IMG-2002 Instrumentation and Metrology in Gravimetry, 28-30 October 2002, Münsbach Castle, Luxemburg, 2003, 22, 49-56

Lea S.N., Rowley W.R.C., Margolis H.S., Barwood G.P., Huang G., Gill P., Chartier J.-M., Windeler R.S., Absolute frequency measurements of 633 nm iodine-stabilized helium-neon lasers, Metrologia, 2003, 40(2), 84-88

Ma L.-S., Zucco M., Picard S., Robertsson L, Windeler R.S., A new method to determine the absolute mode number of a mode-locked femtosecond laser comb used for absolute optical frequency measurements, IEEE J. Select. Top. Quant. Electr., 2003, 9, 1066-1071

Ma L.S., Robertsson L., Picard S., Chartier J.-M., Karlsson H., Prieto E., Ranka J.K., Windeler R.S., The BIPM laser standards at 633 nm and 532 nm simultaneously linked to the SI second using a femtosecond laser in an optical clock configuration, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2003, 52, 232-235

Massone C.A., Titov A., Malinovsky I., Cogno J., Viliesid M., Madej A., Chartier A., Chartier J.-M., Erratum:International Comparison-International comparisons of He-Ne lasers stabilized with ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 633 nm (July 2000) - Part X: Comparison of INMETRO (Brazil), INTI (Argentina), NRC-INMS (Canada), CENAM (Mexico), and BIPM lasers at lambda

= 633 nm , Metrologia, 2003, 40(4), 206

Picard S., Robertsson L, Ma L.S., Nyholm K., Merimaa M., Ahola T.E., Balling P., Kren P., Wallerand J.-P., Comparison of ¹²⁷I₂-stabilized frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Appl. Opt., 2003, 42, 1019-1028

Picard S., Robertsson L., Ma L.S., Millerioux Y., Juncar P., Wallerand J.-P., Balling P., Kren P., Nyholm K., Merimaa M., Ahola T.E., Hong F.-L., Results from international comparisons at the BIPM providing a world-wide network of ¹²⁷I₂ stabilized frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2003, 52, 236-239

Quinn T.J., International report - Practical realization of the definition of the metre, including recommended radiations of other optical frequency standards (2001), Metrologia, 2003, 40(2), 103-133

Robertsson L., Zucco M., Ma L.-S., Absolute frequency measurements of the 532 nm radiation recommended for the realization of the metre, Rapport BIPM-2003/07, 7 pp

Vitushkin L., Jiang Z., Becker M., Francis O., Sixth International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters, Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie, Proceedings of the Workshop: IMG-2002 Instrumentation and Metrology in Gravimetry, 28-30 October 2002, Münsbach Castle, Luxemburg, 2003, 22, 37-43

Vitushkin L.F., Krivtsov E.P., Sinelnikov A.E., Development of metrology and limits in measurements in geophysics, Problems of Geophysics in the 21st Century (Nauka), 2003, 2, 245-265 (in Russian)

2002

Diddams S.A., Hollberg L., Ma L.-S., Robertsson L., Femtosecond-laser-based optical clockwork with instability £ 6.3 ´ 10^-16 in 1 s, Opt. Lett., 2002, 27(1), 58-60

Hasche K., Herrmann K., Mirandé W., Seemann R., Vitushkin L., Xu M., Yu G., Calibrated scanning force microscope with capabilities in the subnanometre range, Surface and Interface Analysis, 2002, 33, 71-74

Hong F.L., Ye J., Ma L.-S., Picard S., Bordé C.J., Hall J.L., Rotation dependence of electric quadrupole hyperfine interaction in the ground state of molecular iodine by high-resolution laser spectroscopy, AIST Bulletin of Metrology, 2002, 1(3), 657-665

Matus M., Balling P.,

mid M., Walczuk J., Bánréti E., Tomanyiczka K., Popescu GH., Chartier A., Chartier J.-M., International comparisons of He-Ne lasers stabilized with ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 633 nm (September 1999). Part IX: Comparison of BEV (Austria), CMI (Czech Republic), GUM (Poland), OMH (Hungary), NIPLPR (Romania) and BIPM lasers at lambda

= 633 nm, Metrologia, 2002, 39(1), 83-89

Onae A., Okumura K., Sugiyama K., Hong F.-L., Ishikawa J., Matsumoto H., Nakagawa K., Felder R., Acef O., An accurate optical frequency measurement system at telecommunication region, CPEM Digest, 2002, 568-569

Petrukhin E., Krylova D., Shelkovnikov A., Gubin M., Felder R., Effect of scattered fields interference in a two-mode (He-Ne)/CH₄ frequency standard, IQEC-LAT, 2002, JWF5

Quinn T.J., Foreword: Sixth International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters (ICAG-2001), Metrologia, 2002, 39(5), 405-406

Robertsson L., Picard S., Hong F.-L., Millerioux Y., Juncar P., Ma L.-S., International comparison of ¹²⁷I₂ stabilized frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers between the BIPM, the NRLM and the BNM-INM, AIST Bulletin of Metrology, 2002, 1(3), 651-656

Vitushkin L., Becker M., Jiang Z., Francis O., van Dam T.M., Faller J., Chartier J.-M., Amalvict M., Bonvalot S., Debeglia N., Desogus S., Diament M., Dupont F., Falk R., Gabalda G., Gagnon C. G. L., Gattacceca T., Germak A., Hinderer J., Jamet O., Jeffries G., Käker Becker M., Jiang Z., Francis O., van Dam T.M., Faller J., Chartier J.-M., Amalvict M., Bonvalot S., Debeglia N., Desogus S., Diament M., Dupont F., Falk R., Gabalda G., Gagnon C. G. L., Gattacceca T., Germak A., Hinderer J., Jamet O., Jeffries G., Käker Becker M., Jiang Z., Francis O., Results of the Sixth International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters, ICAG-2001, Metrologia, 2002, 39(5), 407-424

2001

Chartier J.-M., Chartier A., I₂-Stabilized 633 nm He-Ne lasers: 25 years of international comparisons, Proc. SPIE: Laser Frequency Stabilization, Standards, Measurement and Applications, 2001, 4269, 123-133

Chartier J.-M., Vitushkin L., Khaleev M., Novikov G., Orlov O., Terekhov S., Ustyugov V., Portable I₂-stabilized Nd:YVO₄/KTP laser for secondary wavelength standards at 532 nm, Proc. SPIE: Recent Developments in Traceable Dimensional Measurements, 2001, 4401, 263-266

Diddams S.A., Udem Th., Vogel K.R., Ma L.-S., , Robertsson L., Oates C.W., Curtis E.A., Itano W.M., Drullinger R.E., Wineland D.J., Berquist J.C., Hollberg L., A femtosecond-laser-based optical clock, Symp. Freq. Stand. Metrol., 6, St Andrews, Scotland (Gill P. ed.), World Scientific, 2001, 419-426

Gubin M., Kovalchuk E., Petrukhin E., Shelkovnikov A., Tyurikov D., Gamidov R., Erdogan C., Sahin E., Felder R., Gill P., Lea S., Kramer G., Lipphardt B., Absolute frequency measurements with a set of transportable He-Ne/CH₄ optical frequency standards and prospects for future design and applications, Symp. Freq. Stand. Metrol., 6, St Andrews, Scotland (Gill P. ed.), World Scientific, 2001, 453-460

Hong F.L., Ye J., Ma L.S., Picard S., Bordé Ch.J., Hall J.L., Rotation dependence of electric quadrupole hyperfine interaction in the ground state of molecular iodine by high-resolution laser spectroscopy, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 2001, 18, 379-387

Onae A., Okumura K., Sugiyama K., Hong F.-L., Matsumoto H., Nakagawa K., Felder R., Acef O., Optical frequency standard at 1.5 µm based on doppler-free acetylene absorption, Symp. Freq. Stand. Metrol., 6, St Andrews, Scotland (Gill P. ed.), World Scientific, 2001, 445-452

Robertsson L., Francis O., vanDam T.M., Faller J., Ruess D., Delinte J.-M., Vitushkin L., Liard J., Gagnon C., Guo You Guang, Huang Da Lun, Fang Yong Yuan, Xu Jin Yi, Jeffries G., Hopewell H., Edge R., Robinson I., Kibble B., Makinen J., Hinderer J., Amalvict M., Luck, International Comparison: Results from the fifth international comparison of absolute gravimeters, ICAG'97, Metrologia, 2001, 38(1), 71-78

Robertsson L., Ma L.S., Picard S., Improved iodine-stabilized Nd:YAG lasers, Proc. SPIE: Laser Frequency Stabilization, Standards, Measurement and Applications, 2001, 4269, 268-271

Robertsson L., Picard S., Hong F.-L., Millerioux Y., Juncar P., Ma L.-S., International Comparison: International comparison of ¹²⁷I₂-stabilized frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers between the BIPM, the NRLM and the BNM-INM, October 2000, Metrologia, 2001, 38(6), 567-572

Shen S., Ni Y., Qian J. Liu Z., Shi C., An J., Wang L., Iwasaki S., Ishikawa J., Hong F.-L., Suh H.S., Labot J., Chartier A., Chartier J.-M., International comparison: International comparisons of He-Ne lasers stabilized with ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 633 nm (July 1997). Part VIII: Comparison of NIM (China), NRLM (Japan), KRISS (Republic of Korea) and BIPM lasers at lambda

= 633 nm, Metrologia, 2001, 38(2), 181-186

Yoon T.H., Ye J., Hall J.L., Chartier J.-M., Absolute frequency measurement of the iodine-stabilized He-Ne laser at 633 nm, Appl. Phys. B, 2001, 72, 221-226

2000

Abramova L., Zakharenko Yu., Fedorine V., Blajev T., Kartaleva S., Karlsson H., Popescu GH., Chartier A., Chartier J.-M., International comparisons of He-Ne lasers stabilized with ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 633 nm (July 1993 to September 1995). Part VI: Comparison of VNIIM (Russian Federation), NCM (Bulgaria), NMS (Norway), NILPRP (Romania) and BIPM lasers at lambda

= 633 nm, Metrologia, 2000, 37(2), 115-120

Brown N., Jaatinen E., Suh H., Howick E., Xu G., Veldman I., Chartier A., Chartier J.-M., International comparisons of He-Ne lasers stabilized with ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 633 nm (July 1993 to September 1995). Part V: Comparison of Asian-Pacific and South African lasers at lambda

= 633 nm, Metrologia, 2000, 37(2), 107-113

Khaleev M., Novikov G.E., Orlov O.A., Terekhov S.S., Ustyugov V.I., Chartier J.-M., Vitushkin L.F., Design of Nd:YAG/KTP laser at 532 nm, Digest CPEM 2000, 2000, 479

Lassila A., Riski K., Hu J., Ahola T., Naicheng S., Chengyang L., Balling P., Blabla J., Abramova L., Zakharenko Yu.G., Fedorin V.L., Chartier A., Chartier J.-M., International comparison of He-Ne lasers stabilized with ¹²⁷I₂ at lambda

= 633 nm: Comparison of the fifth- and third-harmonic locking techniques, Metrologia, 2000, 37(6), 701-707

Vitushkin A.L., Vitushkin L.F., On the use of conical reflectors in laser displacement interferometry, Digest CPEM 2000, 2000, 477-478

Ye J., Yoon T.H., Hall J.L., Madej A., Bernard J.E., Klaus J., Siemsen J., Marmet L., Chartier J.-M., Chartier A., Accuracy comparison of optical frequency measurement between harmonic-generation synthesis and a frequency division femtosecond-comb, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2000, 85, 3797-3800

1999

Acef O., Clairon A., Rovera G.D., Ducos F., Hilico L., Kramer G., Lipphardt B., Shelkovnikov A., Kovalchuk E., Petrukhin E., Tyurikov D., Petrovskiy M., Gubin M., Felder R., Gill P., Lea S., Absolute frequency measurements with a set of transportable methane optical frequency standards, Proc. 1999 Joint Meeting EFTF/IEEE FCS, 1999, 742-745

Cliche J.F., Zarka A., Têtu M., Chartier J.-M., Automatic locking of a 633 nm semiconductor laser on iodine, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 1999, 48, 596-599

Jun Ye, Robertsson L., Picard S., Ma L.S., Hall J.L., Absolute frequency atlas of molecular I₂ lines at 532 nm, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 1999, 48, 544-549

Razet A., Picard S., Erratum: A test of new empirical formulas for the prediction of hyperfine component frequencies in ¹²⁷I₂, Metrologia, 1999, 36(2), 159

Vitushkin L.F., Chartier J.-M., Measurements of free-fall acceleration at the site A of the gravity micronetwork of the BIPM, Abstracts of the IUGG General Assembly (week A., 19-24 July 1999), 1999, A431