Frequency stability of optical lattice clocks

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lodewyck, Jérôme ^a   Westergaard, Philip G ^a   Lecallier, Arnaud ^a   Lorini, Luca ^a   Lemonde, Pierre ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; CAVITY DESIGN; CLOCK SYSTEMS; CLOCK TRANSITION; COMPARISON STRATEGY; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE DETECTION; OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FREQUENCY STABILITY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STABILITY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 77955074071     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/065026     Document Type: Article

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