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- Page 3: Outline General things about clock
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- Page 9 and 10: What is an “atomic” clock ? 9
- Page 11 and 12: What is an atomic clock? Local osci
- Page 13 and 14: Ground State Physics 0 Step 1: Cho
- Page 15 and 16: Stern-Gerlach Experiment - 1922 Ove
- Page 17 and 18: Ground State Physics 9192 MHz Energ
- Page 19 and 20: Molecular Resonance Spectroscopy Va
- Page 21 and 22: Invention of the Atomic Clock Probl
- Page 23 and 24: Ramsey: Separated Oscillatory Field
- Page 25 and 26: Ramsey’s Lab - 1949 25
- Page 27 and 28: 1955 NPL Cesium Clock Essen & Perry
- Page 29 and 30: CFS Biases Atom is not in “zero
- Page 31 and 32: Signal [Arb.] Zeeman Spectrum 0.5 0
- Page 33 and 34: State-of-the-art Cesium Clocks NBS-
- Page 35 and 36: Cesium Beam Tube Construction 35
- Page 37 and 38: CFS Instruments Laboratory/Timekeep
- Page 39 and 40: The Ubiquitous Rubidium Oscillator
- Page 41 and 42: State Detection by Optical Scatteri
- Page 43 and 44: Gas Cell Confinement Dicke 1953 Nit
- Page 45 and 46: RF Spectrum Q = 2x10 7 (S/N) 1Hz =
- Page 47 and 48: HP 5065A circa 1970 33 Watts, 37 l
- Page 49 and 50: Small modern Rb oscillators Volume
- Page 51 and 52: Rubidium Oscillator Summary + Buffe
- Page 53 and 54: Hydrogen Maser A different sort of
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RF Spectrum Q is very high: (1.4
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Long-term Stability 57
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Passive Hydrogen Maser Similar phy
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Commercially-available atomic clock
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Cyr & Tetu 1993 63
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CPT w/Modulated diode laser Reprint
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D1 vs. D2 ? D2 excited state multip
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CPT Clock Stability Overlapping All
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1992 - Westinghouse Proposal Propo
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Westinghouse/NG - the first CSAC ef
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Applications Cannot compete with G
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Major Challenges Physics Package
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Noise Contributions Laser Noise D
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Figure-of-Merit Contrast: Signal/
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Rb vs. Cs ? 87 Rubidium Fewer m F L
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Physics Package Objectives Size: <
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The Draper 10 mW Physics Package T
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Edge-emitting Lasers Optical Gain:
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VCSEL Fabrication and Operation N P
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Polyimide Suspension Excellent mat
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Resonance Cell Fabrication Start wi
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Buffer Gas From: Zhu, et al., FCS 2
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Physics Package 99
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Thermal Isolation Cell Temperature
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Vacuum Integrity (“Power aging”
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The NIST CSAC-1 Physics Package Gla
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Honeywell Laboratories solder titan
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Electronics 109
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Microwaves 111
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NIST/CU Coaxial Resonator Oscillato
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MEMs Resonators Polysilicon Stem (I
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Symmetricom SA.45s Synthesizer Mod
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Control System Requirements Provid
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Symmetricom CSAC Block Diagram 1 DA
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SA.45s CSAC on Evaluation Board ATu
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SA.45s CSAC Typical Performance Siz
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Offset [x10 -10 ] Long-term aging (
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Retrace Retraces 25 20 15 10 5 0 -6
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The “CSACXO” Only operate phys
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Block Diagram (30 mW?) 2.6 VDC 1 DA
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1 cm 3 CSAC Output Spectrum CSAC Ou
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At what cost 1 cm 3 CSAC ? No micr
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Key concepts Short-term instabilit
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Acknowledgements I am grateful to s