Compact cold atom clock for on-board timebase: tests in reduced gravity
Atomic Physics
2018-12-06 v1
Abstract
We present a compact atomic clock using cold rubidium atoms based on an isotropic light cooling, a Ramsey microwave interrogation and an absorption detection. Its technology readiness level is suitable to industrial transfer. We use a fibre optical bench, based on a frequency-doubled telecom laser. The isotropic light cooling technique allows us to cool down the atoms in 100 ms and works with a cycle time around 200 ms. We carried out measurements in simulated microgravity and obtained the narrowest fringes ever recorded in microgravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.01658,
title = {Compact cold atom clock for on-board timebase: tests in reduced gravity},
author = {Mehdi Langlois and Jean-Françcois Schaff and Luigi De Sarlo and Simon Bernon and David Holleville and Noël Dimarcq},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01658},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures