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In this paper we present a novel method of atomic clock synchronisation combining digital error correction and phase tracking. Microwave broadcasts are used to measure the difference in frequency between a pair of atomic clocks. We use the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-14 Adam Walton , Abigail McGlone , Benjamin Varcoe

Ramsey interferometry is a cornerstone technique for precise measurement of time and frequency in modern clocks. The Ramsey experiments are typically done in optically dilute samples of atoms to improve homogeneity and avoid back-action of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 S. A. Moiseev , K. I. Gerasimov , M. M. Minnegaliev , I. V. Brekotkin , E. S. Moiseev

Modern resonant sensing tools can achieve increasingly high quality factors, which correspond to extremely narrow linewidths. In such systems, time-variation of the resonator's natural frequency can potentially impact its ability to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-24 Hao-Ran Cui , Saarik Kalia , Zhen Liu

We present an assessment of the (6s^{2})1S0 -> (6s7s)3P0 clock transition frequency in 199Hg with an uncertainty reduction of nearly three orders of magnitude and demonstrate an atomic quality factor, Q, of ~10^(14). The 199Hg atoms are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 J. J. McFerran , L. Yi , S. Mejri , S. Di Manno , W. Zhang , J. Guéna , Y. Le Coq , S. Bize

Phase noise of the frequency synthesizer is one of the main limitations to the short-term stability of microwave atomic clocks. In this work, we demonstrated a low-noise, simple-architecture microwave frequency synthesizer for a coherent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-04 Xiaodong Li , Peter Yun , Qinglin Li , Bowen Ju , Shaoshao Yu , Qiang Hao , Runchang Du , Feng Xu , Wenbing Li , Yuping Gao , Shougang Zhang

Large scale atom interferometers promise unrivaled strain sensitivity to midband (0.1 - 10 Hz) gravitational waves, and will probe a new parameter space in the search for ultra-light scalar dark matter. These atom interferometers require a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 R. Nourshargh , S. Lellouch , S. Hedges , M. Langlois , K. Bongs , M. Holynski

With Hg atoms confined in an optical lattice trap in the Lamb-Dicke regime, we obtain a spectral line at 265.6 nm in which the full-width at half-maximum is <15Hz. Here we lock an ultrastable laser to this ultranarrow clock transition and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. J. McFerran , D. V. Magalhaes , C. Mandache , J. Millo , W. Zhang , Y. Le Coq , G. Santarelli , S. Bize

We report an investigation of laser frequency stabilization using a whispering gallery mode resonator that is temperature stabilized by a dual-mode technique. This dual-mode technique has yielded mode volume temperature instabilities at the…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-01 Lukas M. Baumgartel , Robert J. Thompson , Nan Yu

We demonstrate a vapor cell atomic clock prototype based on continuous-wave (CW) interrogation and double-modulation coherent population trapping (DM-CPT) technique. The DM-CPT technique uses a synchronous modulation of polarization and…

We discuss the feasibility to realize a space cold atom clock with counter-propagating cold atoms in microgravity. The design of the space clock is based on atomic beam clock with a Ramsey cavity, except a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-02-19 Desheng Lv , Bin Wang , Tang Li , Liang Liu

Frequency dependent squeezing is the main upgrade for achieving broadband quantum noise reduction in upcoming observation runs of gravitational wave detectors. The proper frequency dependence of the squeezed quadrature is obtained by…

The repetition rate stabilization of an optical frequency comb based on diode-pumped solid-state laser technology is demonstrated using an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator. The large feedback bandwidth of such modulators allows…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-27 Nicolas Torcheboeuf , Gilles Buchs , Stefan Kundermann , Erwin Portuondo-Campa , Jonathan Bennès , Steve Lecomte

Optical lattice clocks can now resolve the height difference below 1 mm within an atomic ensemble by means of gravitational redshift with integration over sufficient amount of time. Further improvement in the stability enables the clocks to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Akio Kawasaki

We have developed an ultra-stable source in the deep ultraviolet, suitable to fulfill the interrogation requirements of a future fully-operational lattice clock based on neutral mercury. At the core of the system is a Fabry-P\'erot cavity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. T. Dawkins , R. Chicireanu , M. Petersen , J. Millo , D. V. Magalhães , C. Mandache , Y. Le Coq , S. Bize

We present a design for an ultra-stable cryogenically cooled sapphire optical cavity system, with fractional frequency stability better than 1 x 10^-16 at one second integration time. We plan to use such ultra-stable cavities to perform a…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-16 M. Nagel , A. Peters

We present an additive-manufactured microwave cavity for a Ramsey-type, double resonance, compact cold-atom clock. Atoms can be laser cooled inside the cavity using a grating magneto-optic trap (GMOT) with the cavity providing an excellent…

$^{133}$Cs, which is the only stable cesium (Cs) isotope, is one of the most investigated elements in atomic spectroscopy and was used to realize the atomic clock in 1955. Among all atomic clocks, the cesium atomic clock has a special…

Experimentalists seeking to improve the coherent lifetimes of quantum bits have generally focused on mitigating decoherence mechanisms through, for example, improvements to qubit designs and materials, and system isolation from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 H. Ball , W. D. Oliver , M. J. Biercuk

In this paper, we present an experimental study of the metrological stabilization of a solid-state frequency comb for embedded metrology applications. The comb is a passively mode-locked laser diode based on InGaAs/InP Quantum-dash…

Optical lattice clocks with uncertainty and instability in the $10^{-17}$-range and below have so far been demonstrated exclusively using fermions. Here, we demonstrate a bosonic optical lattice clock with $3\times 10^{-18}$ instability and…

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