BNM-SYRTE fountains: Recent results

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 833-836

  Vian, Celine ^a   Rosenbusch, P ^a   Marion, H ^a   Bize, S ^a   Cacciapuoti, L ^a   Zhang, S ^a   Abgrall, M ^a   Chambon, D ^a   Maksimovic, I ^a   Laurent, P ^a   Santarelli, G ^a   Clairon, A ^a   Luiten, A ^b   Tobar, M ^b   Salomon, C ^c  

^a Laboratoire Systemes de Reference Temps Espace   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Atomic fountain; Cold collisions; Frequency comparison; Frequency shifts

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCIES; LASER BEAMS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); STABILITY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATOMIC FOUNTAIN; COLD COLLISIONS; CRYOGENIC SAPPHIRE OSCILLATOR; FREQUENCY COMPARISON; FREQUENCY SHIFTS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 20244363530     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.843573     Document Type: Article

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