Interrogation laser for a strontium lattice clock

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1252-1257

  Legero, Thomas ^a   Lisdat, Christian ^a,b   Vellore Winfred, J S R ^a   Schnatz, Harald ^a   Grosche, Gesine ^a   Riehle, Fritz ^a   Sterr, Uwe ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic clocks; Frequency control; Laser stability; Optical phase locked loops (PLLs); Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; ATOMS; DIODES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE STABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STRONTIUM; SYSTEM STABILITY;

BEAT SIGNALS; CLOCK TRANSITIONS; DIODE LASERS; FEMTOSECOND; FREQUENCY CONTROL; LASER STABILITY; LASER SYSTEMS; LINEWIDTH LASERS; MASTER SLAVES; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS (PLLS); PHASE LOCKS; TRANSFER OSCILLATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 63449102723     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2007042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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