Title :
Cesium active optical clock in four-level laser configuration
Author :
Yanfei Wang ; Xiaobo Xue ; Dongying Wang ; Tonggang Zhang ; Qinqing Sun ; Yelong Hong ; Wei Zhuang ; Jingbiao Chen
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We propose an active optical clock scheme in four-level configuration with cesium atoms. The population inversion has been established experimentally between 7S1/2 state and 6P3/2 state in a thermal cesium cell with a 455.5 nm pumping laser. It can be used to generate active optical clock laser output in a bad cavity laser regime at the wavelength of 1469 nm.
Keywords :
atomic clocks; caesium; laser transitions; optical pumping; population inversion; Cs; cavity laser regime; cesium active optical clock; cesium atoms; four-level laser configuration; laser pumping; population inversion; thermal cesium cell; wavelength 1469 nm; wavelength 455.5 nm; Atom optics; Cavity resonators; Clocks; Laser theory; Optical pumping; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Frequency Control Symposium (FCS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1821-2
DOI :
10.1109/FCS.2012.6243657
