Scott Diddams Portrait
Professor - Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
Physics
scott.diddams@colorado.edu

Research Interests:

My main area of research relates to the development of laser and parametric optical frequency combs and their application to optical atomic clocks, tests of fundamental physics, trace gas sensing, astronomical spectroscopy, and ultralow noise frequency synthesis. A particular emphasis is understanding and pushing the technical and fundamental measurement limits of these systems. Additionally, I am interested in the physics and technology of ultrafast lasers, including the generation of ultrashort optical pulses in the mid- and near-infrared using various solid-state laser systems and nonlinear optical techniques. More recent work has focused on exploiting the high-quality factor of whispering gallery microresonators for nonlinear optics, including the development of chip-scale frequency combs.

Selected Publications:

  1. F. Quinlan, T. Fortier, H. Jiang, A. Hati, C. Nelson, Y. Fu, J. Campbell and S. A. Diddams, 鈥淓xploiting shot noise correlations in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains,鈥� Nature Photonics 7, 290 (2013).
  2. S. B. Papp, P. Del'Haye, S. A. Diddams, "Mechanical control of a microrod-resonator optical frequency comb" Phys Rev X 3, 031003 (2013).
  3. G.G. Ycas, F. Quinlan, S.A. Diddams, S. Osterman, C. Bender, B. Botzer, L. Ramsey, R. Terrien, S. Mahadevan, and S. Redman, 鈥淒emonstration of on-sky calibration of astronomical spectra using a 25 GHz near-IR laser frequency comb,鈥� Opt. Express 20, 6631 (2012).
  4. T. J. Kippenberg, R.L. Holzwarth and S.A. Diddams, 鈥淢icroresonator based optical frequency combs,鈥� Science 332, 555 (2011).
  5. T. Fortier, M. Kirchner, F. Quinlan, J. Taylor, J.C. Bergquist, Y. Jiang, A. Ludlow, C.W. Oates, T. Rosenband, and S.A. Diddams, 鈥淧hotonic generation of ultrastable microwave signals,鈥� Nature Photonics 5, 425 (2011).
  6. S.A. Diddams, 鈥淭he evolving optical frequency comb,鈥� JOSA B 27, B51 (2010).
  7. S. A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, and V. Mbele, 鈥淢olecular fingerprinting with spectrally-resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb,鈥� Nature 445, 627 (2007).
  8. L.-S. Ma, Z. Bi, A. Bartels, L. Robertsson, M. Zucco, R. S. Windeler, G. Wilpers, C. Oates, L. Hollberg, S. A. Diddams, 鈥淥ptical frequency synthesis and comparison with uncertainty at the 10-19 level,鈥� Science, 303, 1843 (2004).
  9. S. A. Diddams, Th. Udem, J. C. Bergquist, E. A. Curtis, R. E. Drullinger, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, W. D. Lee, C. W. Oates, K. R. Vogel, and D. J. Wineland, 鈥淎n optical clock based on a single trapped 199Hg+ ion,鈥� Science 293, 825 (2001).
  10. S. A. Diddams, D. J. Jones, Jun Ye, S. T. Cundiff, J. L. Hall, J. K. Ranka, R. S. Windeler, R. Holzwarth, T. Udem, and T. W. H盲nsch, 鈥淒irect link between microwave and optical frequencies with a 300 THz femtosecond laser comb,鈥� Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5102 (2000).

A complete list of publications can be found听.