Absolute frequency measurement of the In$^{+}$ clock transition with a mode-locked laser
| Autor: | Mikhail N Skvortsov, Sergei N. Bagayev, Th. Udem, Theodor W. Hänsch, J. Reichert, M. Eichenseer, Ekkehard Peik, Ronald Holzwarth, H. Walther, P. V. Pokasov, Ch. Schwedes, J. von Zanthier, A. Yu. Nevsky, Th. Becker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Physics
Quantum Physics Terahertz radiation Absolute frequency chemistry.chemical_element FOS: Physical sciences Laser Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics law.invention Frequency comb Orders of magnitude (time) chemistry law Caesium Femtosecond Atomic physics Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Line (formation) |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier ResearcherID |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0010019 |
| Popis: | The absolute frequency of the In$^{+}$ $5s^{2 1}S_{0}$ - $5s5p^{3}P_{0}$ clock transition at 237 nm was measured with an accuracy of 1.8 parts in $10^{13}$. Using a phase-coherent frequency chain, we compared the $^{1}S_{0}$ - $^{3}P_{0}$ transition with a methane-stabilized He-Ne laser at 3.39 $\mu$m which was calibrated against an atomic cesium fountain clock. A frequency gap of 37 THz at the fourth harmonic of the He-Ne standard was bridged by a frequency comb generated by a mode-locked femtosecond laser. The frequency of the In$^{+}$ clock transition was found to be $1 267 402 452 899.92 (0.23)$ kHz, the accuracy being limited by the uncertainty of the He-Ne laser reference. This represents an improvement in accuracy of more than 2 orders of magnitude on previous measurements of the line and now stands as the most accurate measurement of an optical transition in a single ion. Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. accepted for publication in Opt. Lett |
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