Optical frequency combs and optical frequency measurements

Self-referenced optical frequency combs are nowadays the instrument of choice in time and frequency metrology when dealing with high accuracy and stability measurements of optical frequencies. Beyond this purely measurement activity, they also have new high performance applications, such as low phase noise microwave generation and transfer of spectral purity between optical frequencies. This manuscript describes the various work I have realized using these versatile tools at NIST (Boulder, Colorado, USA) and at LNE-SYRTE (Paris, France) between 2004 and 2014.