Does the light shift drive frequency aging in the rubidium atomic clock?

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1075-1078

  Camparo, James ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY AGING; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SHIFT; VAPORCELL ATOMIC CLOCK; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY CHANGES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

DATA RECORDING; FREQUENCY AGILITY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RUBIDIUM; ATOMIC CLOCKS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; RUBIDIUM;

EID: 24944500608     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1503993     Document Type: Article

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