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A transportable 40Ca+ single-ion clock with $7.7\times 10^{-17}$ systematic uncertainty

Atomic Physics 2022-03-25 v1

Abstract

A transportable optical clock refer to the 4s2S1/23d2D5/24s^2S_{1/2}-3d^2D_{5/2} electric quadrupole transition at 729 nm of single 40Ca+^{40}Ca^+ trapped in mini Paul trap has been developed. The physical system of 40Ca+^{40}Ca^+ optical clock is re-engineered from a bulky and complex setup to an integration of two subsystems: a compact single ion unit including ion trapping and detection modules, and a compact laser unit including laser sources, beam distributor and frequency reference modules. Apart from the electronics, the whole equipment has been constructed within a volume of 0.54 m3m^3. The systematic fractional uncertainty has been evaluated to be 7.7×10177.7\times 10^{-17}, and the Allan deviation fits to be 2.3×1014/τ2.3\times {10}^{-14}/\sqrt{\tau} by clock self-comparison with a probe pulse time 20 ms.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03731,
  title  = {A transportable 40Ca+ single-ion clock with $7.7\times 10^{-17}$ systematic uncertainty},
  author = {Jian Cao and Ping Zhang and Junjuan Shang and Kaifeng Cui and Jinbo Yuan and Sijia Chao and Shaomao Wang and Hualin Shu and Xueren Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03731},
  year   = {2022}
}