Tackling the blackbody shift in a strontium optical lattice clock

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2550-2557

  Middelmann, Thomas ^a   Lisdat, Christian ^a   Falke, Stephan ^a   Vellore Winfred, Joseph S R ^a   Riehle, Fritz ^a   Sterr, Uwe ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic clocks; frequency control; frequency stability; laser stability; Stark effect; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BLACK BODY RADIATION; CLOCK TRANSITION; CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT; FREQUENCY SHIFT; LASER STABILITY; MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS; OPTICAL CLOCKS; OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS; OPTICAL LATTICES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHIFT COEFFICIENTS; SHIFT MEASUREMENT; ULTRACOLD ATOMS; UNCERTAINTY;

ANTENNA RADIATION; ATOMIC CLOCKS; CRYOGENICS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; SPECTROSCOPY; STRONTIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 79958266478     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2088470     Document Type: Article

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