Interrogation of caesium atoms in a fountain clock by a femtosecond laser microwave oscillator

Details Interrogation of caesium atoms in a fountain clock by a femtosecond laser microwave oscillator Interrogation of caesium atoms in a fountain clock by a femtosecond laser microwave oscillator

2009-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2788v1

Phys. Rev. A 79, 031803(R) (2009)

Physics

Atomic Physics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.031803

A caesium fountain clock is operated utilizing a microwave oscillator that derives its frequency stability from a stable laser by means of a fiber-laser femtosecond frequency comb. This oscillator is based on the technology developed for optical clocks and replaces the quartz based microwave oscillator commonly used in fountain clocks. As a result, a significant decrease of the frequency instability of the fountain clock is obtained, reaching 0.74E-14 at 100 s averaging time. We could demonstrate that for a significant range of detected atom numbers the instability is limited by quantum projection noise only, and that for the current status of this fountain clock the new microwave source poses no limit on the achievable frequency instability.

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