Cesium optical atomic clock: An optical pulse that tells the time

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 635-637

  Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Suzuki, Kazunori ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; DEMULTIPLEXING; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CESIUM;

EID: 0141782346     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000635     Document Type: Article

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