학술논문

BNM-SYRTE fountains: Recent results
Document Type
Conference
Source
2004 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Digest, 2004 Conference on. :494-495 Jun, 2004
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Resonance
Clouds
Microwave frequencies
Frequency synthesizers
Microwave oscillators
Atomic beams
Pulse modulation
Cryogenics
Physics
Australia
Language
Abstract
This paper describes several recent improvements of the BNM-SYRTE fountain ensemble. A new method for controlling the cold collision shift with improved accuracy has been proposed and demonstrated. A thorough investigation of some cold collision properties of 133Cs is presented, including the observation of molecular Feshbach resonances. Finally, a new microwave synthesis scheme based on a fully operational cryogenic oscillator is presented. With this, a fractional frequency instability below 2 × 10 -14 τ ½ is obtained routinely.