English

Dynamic cancellation of ac Stark shift for pulsed EIT/Raman optical lattice clocks

Atomic Physics 2009-11-13 v2 Optics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a combination of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT)/Raman and pulsed spectroscopy techniques to accurately cancel frequency shifts arising from EIT fields in forbidden optical lattice clock transitions of alkaline earth atoms. Time-separated laser pulses are designed to trap atoms in coherent superpositions while eliminating off-resonance ac Stark contributions at particular laser detunings from the intermediate excited state. The scheme achieves efficient population transfer up to 60% with potential inaccuracy << 101710^{-17}. Cancellation of external light shifts determined by a density matrix approach is confirmed by a complex wave-function formalism, sufficient at the mHz accuracy, under low field strengths or short interaction times.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0610098,
  title  = {Dynamic cancellation of ac Stark shift for pulsed EIT/Raman optical lattice clocks},
  author = {T. Zanon-Willette and A. D. Ludlow and S. Blatt and M. M. Boyd and E. Arimondo and * Jun Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0610098},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

submitted to Physical Review Letters