Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Yb Optical Lattice Clock at NMIJ, AIST

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

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations

Abstract

We have developed a one-dimensional optical lattice clock using a fermionic isotope of ytterbium (171Yb). The absolute frequency of the 1S0 − 3P0 clock transition in 171Yb is determined with respect to the SI second.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo.2010.cmd4

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