• DocumentCode
    3454227
  • Title

    Comparisons between 3 fountain clocks at LNE-SYRTE

  • Author

    Chapelet, F. ; Guéna, J. ; Rovera, D. ; Laurent, P. ; Rosenbusch, P. ; Santarelli, G. ; Bize, S. ; Clairon, A. ; Tobar, M.E. ; Abgrall, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Obs. de Paris, Paris
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    May 29 2007-June 1 2007
  • Firstpage
    467
  • Lastpage
    472
  • Abstract
    Comparisons between three Cs fountains are described. All three LNE-SYRTE fountain clocks are now using a cryogenic sapphire oscillator as a starting point to generate the microwave probe signal. As a result, all three fountains have a fractional frequency instability in the 10-14 range at 1 s. All three fountains are also using a recently developed generation of microwave synthesizers allowing to switch the microwave probe signal without introducing detrimental phase transient. Several series of measurements have been made totalizing more than 80 days of simultaneous operation under optimized conditions of a pair of either fountains. Results of these measurements are presented. Finally, modifications of the FO2 fountain has been completed to allow simultaneous operation with Rb and Cs. operation with Rb leads to a fractional frequency instability of 6.3 times 10-14 tau-1/2.
  • Keywords
    atomic clocks; cryogenic electronics; microwave oscillators; oscillators; Cs fountains; LNE-SYRTE; cryogenic sapphire oscillator; detrimental phase transient; fountain clocks; fractional frequency instability; microwave probe signal; microwave synthesizers; Atomic measurements; Australia; Clocks; Cryogenics; Frequency; Laser beams; Microwave generation; Microwave oscillators; Optical collimators; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Frequency Control Symposium, 2007 Joint with the 21st European Frequency and Time Forum. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    1075-6787
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0646-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1075-6787
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FREQ.2007.4319118
  • Filename
    4319118