A chip-scale atomic clock based on87Rb with improved frequency stability

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1249-1253

  Knappe, S ^a   Schwindt, P D D ^a   Shah, V ^a,b   Hollberg, L ^a   Kitching, J ^a   Liew, L ^a   Moreland, J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ARGON; ATOMIC CLOCKS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FABRICATION; FREQUENCY STABILITY; MICROOPTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTODETECTORS; RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VACUUM FURNACES;

CHIP-SCALE ATOMIC CLOCK; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING (CPT); EXCHANGE COLLISIONS; RESONANCE AMPLITUDES;

RUBIDIUM;

EID: 14744298189     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001249     Document Type: Article

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