Testing the stability of fundamental constants with the 199Hg+ single-ion optical clock

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Bize, S ^a   Diddams, S A ^a   Tanaka, U ^a,b   Tanner, C E ^a,c   Oskay, W H ^a   Drullinger, R E ^a   Parker, T E ^a   Heavner, T P ^a   Jefferts, S R ^a   Hollberg, L ^a   Itano, W M ^a   Bergquist, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; COHERENT LIGHT; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; GROUND STATE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS; PHOTODIODES;

DOPPLER LIMIT; OPTICAL CLOCK; PAUL TRAP; RYDBERG CONSTANT;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0038540600     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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