The stability of an optical clock laser transferred to the interrogation oscillator for a Cs fountain

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1258-1262

  Lipphardt, Burghard ^a   Grosche, Gesine ^a   Sterr, Uwe ^a   Tamm, Christian ^a   Weyers, Stefan ^a   Schnatz, Harald ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fountain clocks; Frequency combs; Microwave oscillators; Optical frequency standards; Phase noise measurement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ATOMIC CLOCKS; CESIUM; CORUNDUM; FOUNTAINS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; LASERS; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE NOISE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUARTZ; STABILITY;

ALLAN DEVIATIONS; CURRENT STATUS; FEMTOSECOND LASER FREQUENCY COMBS; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY COMBS; LASER FREQUENCIES; LOADED CAVITIES; MICROWAVE SOURCES; OPTICAL CLOCKS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARDS; PHASE NOISE MEASUREMENT; PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT; QUARTZ OSCILLATORS; RESIDUAL PHASE NOISE; TRANSFER OSCILLATORS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 63449138917     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2007051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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