Hg+ Trapped Ion Standard with the Superconducting Cavity Maser Oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 200-205

  Prestage, J D ^a   Tjoelker, R L ^a   Wang, R T ^a   Dick, G J ^a   Maleki, L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; MASERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

ATOMIC STANDARD; CLOCK TRANSITION; FREQUENCY STABILITY; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; LINEAR ION TRAP;

STANDARDS;

EID: 0027580739     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: 15579662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.278549     Document Type: Article

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