Title :
Improvement of the 171Yb optical lattice clock at NMIJ, AIST
Author :
Yasuda, Masami ; Kohno, Takuya ; Hosaka, Kazumoto ; Inaba, Hajime ; Nakajima, Yoshiaki ; Akamatsu, Daisuke ; Hong, Feng-Lei
Author_Institution :
Nat. Metrol. Inst. of Japan (NMIJ), AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
Experimental efforts to reduce the uncertainty of the ytterbium (171Yb) optical lattice clock at NMIJ, AIST are shown. Especially, atom number normalization scheme is presented.
Keywords :
optical lattices; ytterbium; AIST; NMIJ; Yb; atom number normalization scheme; optical lattice clock; Atom lasers; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Clocks; Fluorescence; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser transitions; Lattices; Probes;
Conference_Titel :
Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Daejeon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6795-2
DOI :
10.1109/CPEM.2010.5544343