Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum and IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF/IFCS)

Status of a compact cold-atom CPT frequency standard

François-Xavier Esnault, Elizabeth A. Donley, John E. Kitching, Eugene N. Ivanov

Published May 1, 2011• 1 citation

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We describe the progress towards the realization of a cold-atom frequency standard based on coherent population trapping (CPT). We explain our particular CPT configuration and give details on the experimental setup.

DOI: 10.1109/fcs.2011.5977843

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