Demonstration of a dual alkali Rb/Cs fountain clock

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 647-653

  Guéna, Jocelyne ^a   Rosenbusch, Peter ^a   Laurent, Philippe ^a   Abgrall, Michel ^a   Rovera, Daniele ^a   Santarelli, Giorgio ^a   Tobar, Michael E ^b   Bize, Sebastien ^a   Clairon, André ^a  

^a Laboratoire Systemes de Reference Temps Espace   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FOUNTAIN CLOCKS; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; HYPERFINE FREQUENCIES; KEY FEATURE; SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION;

ATOMS; CESIUM; FOUNTAINS; RUBIDIUM;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 77949355547     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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