Present status of the development of an Yb optical lattice clock at NMIJ/AIST (National Metrology Institute of Japan / National Institute pi of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6673, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yasuda, Masami ^a,b   Hong, Feng Lei ^a,b   Kohno, Takuya ^b   Inaba, Hajime ^a,b   Hosaka, Kazumoto ^a,b   Willis, Christina ^a   Kurosu, Takayuki ^a   Onae, Atsushi ^a   Ohshima, Shin Ichi ^a,b  

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

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical frequency standard; Optical lattice clock; Ytterbium (Yb)

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; OPTICAL DEVICES; TIME MEASUREMENT; VACUUM; YTTERBIUM;

LASER SOURCES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARDS; OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS;

ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 42149178758     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.733047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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