A low phase noise microwave source for atomic spin squeezing experiments in 87Rb

Details A low phase noise microwave source for atomic spin squeezing experiments in 87Rb A low phase noise microwave source for atomic spin squeezing experiments in 87Rb

2012-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/1204.4215v1

Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 044701 (2012)

Physics

Atomic Physics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3700247

We describe and characterize a simple, low cost, low phase noise microwave source that operates near 6.800 GHz for agile, coherent manipulation of ensembles of 87Rb. Low phase noise is achieved by directly multiplying a low phase noise 100 MHz crystal to 6.8 GHz using a non-linear transmission line and filtering the output with custom band-pass filters. The fixed frequency signal is single sideband modulated with a direct digital synthesis frequency source to provide the desired phase, amplitude, and frequency control. Before modulation, the source has a single sideband phase noise near -140 dBc/Hz in the range of 10 kHz to 1 MHz offset from the carrier frequency and -130 dBc/Hz after modulation. The resulting source is estimated to contribute added spin-noise variance 16 dB below the quantum projection noise level during quantum nondemolition measurements of the clock transition in an ensemble 7x10^5 87Rb atoms.

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