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We demonstrate a precision frequency measurement using a phase-stabilized 120-km optical fiber link over a physical distance of 50 km. The transition frequency of the 87Sr optical lattice clock at the University of Tokyo is measured to be…

Transition frequencies of atoms and ions are among the most accurately accessible quantities in nature, playing important roles in pushing the frontiers of science by testing fundamental laws of physics, in addition to a wide range of…

We report on a transportable optical clock, based on laser-cooled strontium atoms trapped in an optical lattice. The experimental apparatus is composed of a compact source of ultra-cold strontium atoms including a compact cooling laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Poli , M. Schioppo , S. Vogt , St. Falke , U. Sterr , Ch. Lisdat , G. M. Tino

We propose and analyze a Cesium lattice optical clock (CLOC) which has the potential for high performance and simple operation in a compact form factor using a forbidden optical transition in Cs atoms at 685 nm. Cs atoms are trapped in a 3D…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 A. Sharma , S. Kolkowitz , M. Saffman

We present the experimental demonstration of non-destructive probing of the 1S0-3P0 clock transition probability in an optical lattice clock with 87Sr atoms. It is based on the phase shift induced by the atoms on a weak off-resonant laser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Jerome Lodewyck , Philip G. Westergaard , Pierre Lemonde

We present a compact, long-term nearly continuous operation of a room-temperature Ca$^+$ optical clock setup towards a transportable clock, achieving an overall systematic uncertainty of $4.8\times 10^{-18}$ and an uptime rate of 97.8% over…

The absolute frequency of the 1S0-3P0 clock transition of 87Sr has been measured to be 429 228 004 229 873.65 (37) Hz using lattice-confined atoms, where the fractional uncertainty of 8.6x10-16 represents one of the most accurate…

We demonstrated transferring the stability of one highly stable clock laser operating at 729 nm to another less stable laser operating at 698 nm. The two different wavelengths were bridged using an optical frequency comb. The improved…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Yamaguchi , N. Shiga , S. Nagano , Y. Li , H. Ishijima , H. Hachisu , M. Kumagai , T. Ido

We consider the frequency shift in optical lattice clocks which arises from the coupling of the electronic motion to the atomic motion within the lattice. For the simplest of 3-D lattice geometries this coupling is shown to only affect…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-13 Kyle Beloy

We report on a $^{88}$Sr$^{+}$ single-ion optical clock with an estimated fractional systematic uncertainty of $7.9\times 10^{-19}$. The low uncertainty is enabled by small rf losses, a thorough evaluation of the blackbody-radiation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 T. Lindvall , T. Fordell , K. J. Hanhijärvi , M. Doležal , J. Rahm , S. Weyers , A. E. Wallin

We report on an improved systematic evaluation of the JILA SrI optical lattice clock, achieving a nearly identical systematic uncertainty compared to the previous strontium accuracy record set by the JILA SrII optical lattice clock (OLC) at…

Atomic lattice clocks have spurred numerous ideas for tests of fundamental physics, detection of general relativistic effects, and studies of interacting many-body systems. On the other hand, molecular structure and dynamics offer rich…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 S. S. Kondov , C. -H. Lee , K. H. Leung , C. Liedl , I. Majewska , R. Moszynski , T. Zelevinsky

An ultrastable optical clock based on neutral atoms trapped in an optical lattice is proposed. Complete control over the light shift is achieved by employing the $5s^2 {}^1S_0 \to 5s5p {}^3P_0$ transition of ${}^{87}{\rm Sr}$ atoms as a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hidetoshi Katori , Masao Takamoto , V. G. Pal'chikov , V. D. Ovsiannikov

Compact optical clocks with high stability are essential for next-generation frequency standard field applications, from navigation to geodesy, yet existing vapor cell clock systems have remained confined to fractional instabilities over…

Optical molecular clocks promise unparalleled sensitivity to the temporal variation of the electron-to-proton mass ratio and insight into possible new physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose to realize a molecular clock with bosonic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Mateusz Borkowski

We demonstrate how to realize an optical clock with neutral atoms that is competitive to the currently best single ion optical clocks in accuracy and superior in stability. Using ultracold atoms in a Ca optical frequency standard we show…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Wilpers , T. Binnewies , C. Degenhardt , U. Sterr , J. Helmcke , F. Riehle

We report a single-ion optical atomic clock with fractional frequency uncertainty of $5.5\times10^{-19}$ and fractional frequency stability of $3.5 \times10^{-16}/\sqrt{\tau/\mathrm{s}}$, based on quantum logic spectroscopy of a single…

Optical clocks are not only powerful tools for prime fundamental research, but are also deemed for the re-definition of the SI base unit second as they now surpass the performance of caesium atomic clocks in both accuracy and stability by…

Optical clocks with unprecedented accuracy of 10^(-18) will lead to innovations in many research areas. All the applications of optical clocks rely on the ability of precisely converting the frequency from one optical clock to another, or…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-20 Yuan Yao , Yanyi Jiang , Hongfu Yu , Zhiyi Bi , Longsheng Ma

We report an uncertainty evaluation of an $^{171}$Yb optical lattice clock with a total fractional uncertainty of $3.6\times10^{-16}$, which is mainly limited by the lattice-induced light shift and the blackbody radiation shift. Our…