Title :
An ultrastable Cs optical atomic clock with a 9.1926-GHz low-drift regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser
Author :
Hirayama, Toru ; Yakabe, Masatsugu ; Yoshida, Masato ; Nakazawa, Masataka ; Koga, Yasuki ; Hagimoto, Ken
Author_Institution :
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University; Japan; hirayama@riec.tohoku.ac.jp
Abstract :
An ultrastable cesium (Cs) optical atomic clock is realized by adopting a low-drift regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser. The frequency stabilities reached 3.1×10-12for τ=1-s and 2.5×10-13for τ=100-s with a Im-long optically-pumped Cs beam tube.
Keywords :
Atom lasers; Atom optics; Atomic clocks; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Optical beams; Repeaters; Stability;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569864