Title :
Progress of the 171Yb optical lattice clock at NMIJ, AIST
Author :
Yasuda, Masami ; Kohno, Takuya ; Hosaka, Kazumoto ; Inaba, Hajime ; Nakajima, Yoshiaki ; Akamatsu, Daisuke ; Hong, Feng-Lei
Author_Institution :
AIST, Nat. Metrol. Inst. of Japan (NMIJ), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
Experimental efforts to reduce the uncertainty of the ytterbium (171Yb) optical lattice clock at NMIJ, AIST are shown. The signal-to-noise ratio of the spectrum was increased by 10 times by an atom number normalization scheme.
Keywords :
atom optics; optical lattices; ytterbium; AIST; NMIJ; Yb; atom number normalization scheme; optical lattice clock; signal-to-noise ratio; Atom lasers; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Atomic clocks; Atomic measurements; Lattices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
