Properties of an oscillator slaved to a periodically interrogated atomic resonator
In advanced atomic resonators, such as those using a fountain of cold cesium atoms or an ensemble of stored ions, the atomic medium is interrogated periodically, and the control signal of the slaved oscillator is updated at equally spaced time intervals. We analyze the properties of the output frequ...
| Veröffentlicht in: | IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control. - 1986. - 45(1998), 4 vom: 15., Seite 877-86 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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1998
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
| Zusammenfassung: | In advanced atomic resonators, such as those using a fountain of cold cesium atoms or an ensemble of stored ions, the atomic medium is interrogated periodically, and the control signal of the slaved oscillator is updated at equally spaced time intervals. We analyze the properties of the output frequency of these frequency standards. We establish the equations that describe the time behavior of this frequency. We give the stability condition and the transient response of the frequency feedback loop, the response to systematic frequency changes of the free running oscillator, the frequency stability for given free-running oscillator noise and given optical detection noise, and the limitation of the frequency stability by down-conversion of the intrinsic oscillator frequency noise (Dick effect). We point out that a second integration in the feedback loop may not improve significantly the rejection of slow perturbations, unless a condition relative to the timing of the atom-field interaction is verified |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 02.10.2012 Date Revised 04.02.2008 published: Print Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1525-8955 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/58.710546 |