• DocumentCode
    2658634
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    21-24 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Frequency Control Symposium (FCS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • ISSN
    1075-6787
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1821-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FCS.2012.6243657
  • Filename
    6243657