Theoretical study of the dick effect in a continuously operated Ramsey resonator

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 150-156

  Joyet, Alain ^b   Mileti, Gaetano ^b   Dudle, Gregor ^c   Thomann, Pierre ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Observatoire de Neuchatel   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONTINUOUSLY OPERATED RAMSEY RESONATOR; DICK EFFECT; LASER COOLING;

CRYSTAL RESONATORS;

EID: 0035248860     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.903893     Document Type: Article

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