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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Present status of the development of an Yb optical lattice clock at NMIJ/AIST (National Metrology Institute of Japan / National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Masami Yasuda, Feng-Lei Hong, Takuya Kohno, Hajime Inaba, Kazumoto Hosaka, Christina C. C. Willis, Takayuki Kurosu, Atsushi Onae, Shinichi Ohshima

Published Aug 29, 2007• 8 citations
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Abstract

The present status of the development of the Yb optical lattice clock at NMIJ/AIST and future prospects are presented. Experimental equipments such as vacuum systems and laser sources are explained in detail.
DOI
10.1117/12.733047

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