A Cesium Fountain Frequency Standard: Preliminary Results

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 128-131

  Clairon, A ^a   Laurent, P ^a   Santarelli, G ^a   Ghezali, S ^a   Lea, S N ^b   Bahoura, M ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CESIUM; FREQUENCY STABILITY; MASERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CESIUM ATOMS; CESIUM FOUNTAIN FREQUENCY STANDARD; RAMSEY FRINGES;

FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

EID: 0029292752     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: 15579662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.377790     Document Type: Article

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