Measurement and cancellation of the cold collision frequency shift in an 87Rb fountain clock

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1622-1625

  Fertig, Chad ^a   Gibble, Kurt ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; LASER BEAMS; RUBIDIUM; TUNING;

ATOMIC TRANSITION; COLLISION FREQUENCY SHIFT; FOUNTAIN CLOCKS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 0034245833     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1622     Document Type: Article

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