Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …

Theory and applications of atomic and ionic polarizabilities

J Mitroy, MS Safronova, CW Clark - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Atomic polarization phenomena im**e upon a number of areas and processes in physics.
The dielectric constant and refractive index of any gas are examples of macroscopic …

Optical frequency transfer via fiber link with relative accuracy

G Grosche, O Terra, K Predehl, R Holzwarth… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the long-distance transmission of an ultrastable optical frequency derived
directly from a state-of-the-art optical frequency standard. Using an active stabilization …

Potassium ground-state scattering parameters and Born-Oppenheimer potentials from molecular spectroscopy

S Falke, H Knöckel, J Friebe, M Riedmann… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
We present precision measurements with MHz uncertainty of the energy gap between
asymptotic and well bound levels in the electronic ground state X Σ 1 g+ of the K 39 2 …

Phase-coherent comparison of two optical frequency standards over 146 km using a telecommunication fiber link

O Terra, G Grosche, K Predehl, R Holzwarth, T Legero… - Applied Physics B, 2009 - Springer
We have explored the performance of two “dark fibers” of a commercial telecommunication
fiber link for a remote comparison of optical clocks. The two fibers, linking the Leibniz …

Hyperfine constants and line separations for the intercombination line in neutral ytterbium with sub-Doppler resolution

PE Atkinson, JS Schelfhout, JJ McFerran - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Optical frequency measurements of the intercombination line (6 s 2) S 0 1-(6 s 6 p) P 1 3 in
the isotopes of ytterbium are carried out with the use of sub-Doppler fluorescence …

Fractional frequency instability in the range with a thermal beam optical frequency reference

JJ McFerran, AN Luiten - Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a means of increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in a Ramsey–Bordé
interferometer with spatially separated oscillatory fields on a thermal atomic beam. The S 0 …

Remote frequency measurement of the 1S0→ 3P1 transition in laser-cooled 24Mg

J Friebe, M Riedmann, T Wübbena, A Pape… - New Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We perform Ramsey–Bordé spectroscopy on laser-cooled magnesium atoms in
free fall to measure the 1 S 0→ 3 P 1 intercombination transition frequency. The measured …

Shelving spectroscopy of the strontium intercombination line

I Manai, A Molineri, C Fréjaville, C Duval… - Journal of Physics B …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a spectroscopy scheme for the 7 kHz wide 689 nm intercombination line of
strontium. We rely on shelving detection, where electrons are first excited to a metastable …

The X1Σg+ ground state of Mg2 studied by Fourier-transform spectroscopy

H Knöckel, S Rühmann, E Tiemann - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The |$X^{1}\Sigma ^{+}_{g}$|X1Σg+ ground state of Mg2 studied by Fourier-transform
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