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A cold-atom Ramsey clock with a low volume physics package

Atomic Physics 2023-05-05 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate a Ramsey-type microwave clock interrogating the 6.835~GHz ground-state transition in cold \textsuperscript{87}Rb atoms loaded from a grating magneto-optical trap (GMOT) enclosed in an additively manufactured loop-gap resonator microwave cavity. A short-term stability of 1.5×10111.5 \times10^{-11} ~τ1/2\tau^{-1/2} is demonstrated, in reasonable agreement with predictions from the signal-to-noise ratio of the measured Ramsey fringes. The cavity-grating package has a volume of \approx67~cm\textsuperscript{3}, ensuring an inherently compact system while the use of a GMOT drastically simplifies the optical requirements for laser cooled atoms. This work is another step towards the realisation of highly compact portable cold-atom frequency standards.

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@article{arxiv.2305.02944,
  title  = {A cold-atom Ramsey clock with a low volume physics package},
  author = {Alan Bregazzi and Etienne Batori and Ben Lewis and Christoph Affolderbach and Gaetano Mileti and Erling Riis and Paul Griffin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02944},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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