Prospect for a compact strontium optical lattice clock

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6673, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Poli, N ^a   Drullinger, R E ^a   Ferrari, G ^a   Prevedelli, M ^b   Sorrentino, F ^a   Tarallo, M G ^a,c   Tino, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical clock; Semiconductor laser source

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL CLOCKS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER SOURCES; TRANSPORTABLE DEVICES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 42149145229     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.739057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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