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 …

Ultralow-noise mode-locked fiber lasers and frequency combs: principles, status, and applications

J Kim, Y Song - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We review the most recent progress in ultralow-noise mode-locked fiber lasers and fiber-
based frequency-comb sources. With the rapid progress in theory, measurement, and …

Improved limits on the coupling of ultralight bosonic dark matter to photons from optical atomic clock comparisons

M Filzinger, S Dörscher, R Lange, J Klose, M Steinel… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present improved constraints on the coupling of ultralight bosonic dark matter to photons
based on long-term measurements of two optical frequency ratios. In these optical clock …

Search for ultralight dark matter from long-term frequency comparisons of optical and microwave atomic clocks

T Kobayashi, A Takamizawa, D Akamatsu, A Kawasaki… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We search for ultralight scalar dark matter candidates that induce oscillations of the fine
structure constant, the electron and quark masses, and the quantum chromodynamics …

Geodesy and metrology with a transportable optical clock

J Grotti, S Koller, S Vogt, S Häfner, U Sterr, C Lisdat… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks, due to their unprecedented stability,–and uncertainty,,–, are already
being used to test physical theories, and herald a revision of the International System of …

Comparing ultrastable lasers at 7 × 10−17 fractional frequency instability through a 2220 km optical fibre network

M Schioppo, J Kronjaeger, A Silva, R Ilieva… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrastable lasers are essential tools in optical frequency metrology enabling unprecedented
measurement precision that impacts on fields such as atomic timekee**, tests of …

A Fermi-degenerate three-dimensional optical lattice clock

SL Campbell, RB Hutson, GE Marti, A Goban… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Strontium optical lattice clocks have the potential to simultaneously interrogate millions of
atoms with a high spectroscopic quality factor of 4× 1017. Previously, atomic interactions …

Systematic evaluation of an atomic clock at 2 × 10−18 total uncertainty

TL Nicholson, SL Campbell, RB Hutson… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The pursuit of better atomic clocks has advanced many research areas, providing better
quantum state control, new insights in quantum science, tighter limits on fundamental …

The CIPM list of recommended frequency standard values: guidelines and procedures

F Riehle, P Gill, F Arias, L Robertsson - Metrologia, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A list of standard reference frequency values (LoF) of quantum transitions from the
microwave to the optical regime has been recommended by the International Committee for …

A clock network for geodesy and fundamental science

C Lisdat, G Grosche, N Quintin, C Shi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Leveraging the unrivalled performance of optical clocks as key tools for geo-science, for
astronomy and for fundamental physics beyond the standard model requires comparing the …