A 303-MHZ FREQUENCY STANDARD BASED ON TRAPPED BE+ IONS

被引:150
作者
BOLLINGER, JJ
HEINZEN, DJ
ITANO, WM
GILBERT, SL
WINELAND, DJ
机构
[1] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, co
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D O I
10.1109/TIM.1990.1032897
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A 303-MHz hyperfine transition in the ground state of Be-9+ was used as a basis of a frequency standard. The ions were stored in a Penning ion trap. Linewidths as narrow as 900-mu-Hz were obtained. The frequency stability was measured to be better than 3 x 10(-12)tau-1/2. The inaccuracy in the second-order Doppler shift was reduced to 5 parts in 10(15) by laser cooling. An apparent pressure shift with an unexpectedly large value was discovered which limits the accuracy of the current experiment to approximately 1 part in 10(13).
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