Deployment of a Transportable Yb Optical Lattice Clock
Abstract
We report on the first deployment of a ytterbium (Yb) transportable optical lattice clock (TOLC), commercially shipping the clock 3,000 km from Boulder, Colorado to Washington DC. The system, composed of a rigidly mounted optical reference cavity, atomic physics package, and an optical frequency comb, fully realizes an independent frequency standard for comparisons in the optical and microwave domains. The shipped Yb TOLC was fully operational within 2 days of arrival, enabling frequency comparisons with rubidium (Rb) fountains at the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first deployment of a fully independent TOLC, including the frequency comb, coherently uniting the optical stability of the Yb TOLC to the microwave output of the Rb fountain.
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@article{arxiv.2409.16264,
title = {Deployment of a Transportable Yb Optical Lattice Clock},
author = {Tobias Bothwell and Wesley Brand and Robert Fasano and Thomas Akin and Joseph Whalen and Tanner Grogan and Yun-Jhih Chen and Marco Pomponio and Takuma Nakamura and Benjamin Rauf and Ignacio Baldoni and Michele Giunta and Ronald Holzwarth and Craig Nelson and Archita Hati and Franklyn Quinlan and Richard Fox and Steven Peil and Andrew Ludlow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16264},
year = {2024}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures