Frequency stability degradation of an oscillator slaved to a periodically interrogated atomic resonator

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 887-894

  Santarelli, Giorgio ^a   Audoin, Claude ^a   Makdissi, AlA'A ^b   Laurent, Philippe ^b   John Dick, G ^c   Clairon, André ^c  

^a Lab Primaire Temps des Frequences   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ATOMIC RESONATORS; RAMSEY MULTI-RABI INTERROGATION SCHEME;

RESONATORS;

EID: 0032119950     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710548     Document Type: Article

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