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Absolute frequency measurement of 171Yb in a one-dimensional optical lattice

Takuya Kohno, Masami Yasuda, Kazumoto Hosaka, Hajime Inaba, Yoshiaki Nakajima, Daisuke Akamatsu, Feng-Lei Hong

Published Jun 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the spectroscopy of171Yb atoms confined in a one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice and the absolute frequency measurement of the clock transition. The absolute frequency of the1S0(F = 1/2) -3P0(F = 1/2) clock transition in171Yb is determined to be 518 295 836 590 864(28) Hz with respect to the SI second.
DOI
10.1109/cpem.2010.5544477

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