Nobel Prize winner attends the Helmholtz Prize award ceremony

The most important metrology prize is awarded on June 23rd in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Theodor Hänsch will personally appear on June 23rd to congratulate his three former colleages from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, who will on this day be awarded the Helmholtz Prize: Prof. Dr. Tobias J. Kippenberg, Dr. Ronald Holzwarth and Pascal Del' Haye have implemented Hänsch's Nobel Prize-winning invention, the optical frequency comb, in a completely new way. Their "optical frequency comb on a chip" does not produce the characteristic evenly spaced frequency intervals of the frequency comb with an intricate femtosecond laser, but rather with a microresonator. The new system lends itself to extremely accurate and stable frequency measurements, for example for the calibration of astronomical measuring devices. Kippenberg, Holzwarth and Del' Haye will be awarded the Helmholtz Prize which is endowed with 20 000 euros in the course of a ceremony on Tuesday, June 23rd, starting at 5 p.m. in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in Berlin. more...