Influence of chirped excitation pulses in an optical clock with ultracold calcium atoms

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 771-775

  Degenhardt, Carsten ^a   Nazarova, Tatiana ^b   Lisdat, Christian ^c   Stoehr, Hardo ^c   Sterr, Uwe ^b   Riehle, Fritz ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atom interferometry; Optical frequency standards

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; DOPPLER EFFECT; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER RESONATORS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ATOM INTERFEROMETRY; EXCITATION PULSES; OPTICAL CLOCK; OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 17444388817     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.843388     Document Type: Article

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