Interrogation oscillator noise rejection in the comparison of atomic fountains

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1253-1255

  Bize, Sebastien ^a   Sortais, Yvan ^b   Lemonde, Pierre ^b   Zhang, Shougang ^a   Laurent, Philippe ^b   Santarelli, Giorgio ^a   Salomon, Christophe ^b   Clairon, Andre ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CESIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; PROBABILITY; RUBIDIUM; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ATOMIC FOUNTAIN; DICK EFFECT; INTERROGATION OSCILLATOR NOISE REJECTION;

CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0034266913     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.869073     Document Type: Article

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