Journal of Wuhan Polytechnic University

Principle and circuit system design of CPT atomic clock

Xu Jian

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

This paper presents the principle of Coherent Population Trapping(CPT) atomic clock and gives the mathematical process of information extraction and process in the clock.Then one frame of the realization of the circuit system of CPT atomic clock is defined.

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