Optical clocks based on ultranarrow three-photon resonances in alkaline earth atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Hong, Tao ^a   Cramer, Claire ^a   Nagourney, Warren ^a   Fortson, E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOUVILLIAN MATRIX; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; OPTICAL CLOCKS; THREE-PHOTON RESONANCES;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DOPPLER EFFECT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RESONANCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 18244397453     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.050801     Document Type: Article

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