Optical Frequency Synthesis and Comparison with Uncertainty at the 10 -19 Level

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5665, 2004, Pages 1843-1845

  Ma, Long Sheng ^a,b   Bi, Zhiyi ^b   Bartels, Albrecht ^c   Robertsson, Lennart ^a   Zucco, Massimo ^a   Windeler, Robert S ^d   Wilpers, Guido ^c   Oates, Chris ^c   Hollberg, Leo ^c   Diddams, Scott A ^c  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^d OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; OPTICAL STANDARDS;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS;

CALCIUM; CESIUM; MERCURY;

LASER METHOD;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 12144287880     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095092     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank T. Ramond, R. Fox, and J. Bergquist for their contributions to this work, and J. Hall, D. Wineland, and J. Ye for their thoughtful comments on this manuscript. The work at NIST was funded in part by NASA. The project at ECNU was funded in part by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (01DJGK014, 022261033), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, National Science Foundation of China (10274020), and Ministry of Education, China (02106).