An optical lattice clock

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7040, 2005, Pages 321-324

  Takamoto, Masao ^a   Hong, Feng Lei ^c   Higashi, Ryoichi ^a   Katori, Hidetoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; QUANTUM OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL CLOCKS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCK; SINGLE-ION CLOCK;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

PHYSICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 19744363136     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03541     Document Type: Article

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