A CPT-based 87Rb atomic clock employing a small spherical glass vapor cell

38th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 259-269

  Ido, Ben Aroya ^a   Kahanov, Matan ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING; RB VAPORS; RESONANCE WIDTH; SHORT TERM STABILITY; SPHERICAL GLASS; TIME CONSTANTS; VAPOR CELLS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; GLASS; PLATINUM ALLOYS; RUBIDIUM;

VAPORS;

EID: 84877826473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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