Laser noise cancellation in single-cell CPT clocks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1357-1361

  Gerginov, Vladislav ^a   Knappe, Svenja ^b   Shah, Shah ^c   Hollberg, Leo ^b   Kitching, John ^b  

^a CYMER INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic clocks; Coherent population trapping (CPT); Compact frequency references; Diode lasers; Noise reduction; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING (CPT); COMPACT FREQUENCY REFERENCES; DIODE LASERS; NOISE REDUCTION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSELS);

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ATOMIC CLOCKS; ATOMS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; GROUND STATE; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; RUBIDIUM; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

CHARGE TRAPPING;

EID: 65349087509     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.915123     Document Type: Article

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