A wavelength measurement system (lambdameter) for singlemode sources used in optical fiber communications is described. The sources of interest are mainly diode lasers emitting at 1.3 and 1.5 fxm, but the system can be used in the near IR and red regions of the spectrum. Accuracy in wavelength measurement is <0. 1 ppm at the 0.63^m HeNe line by comparing separately each of two adjacent modes from a HeNe laser that is frequencystabilized by a polarization technique, with a single mode from a second similarly frequency-stabilized HeNe laser. Wavelength instability of a commercially packaged 1.52^m distributedfeedback diode laser is in the range ±1 ppm.