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Frequency comparisons of Sr, Yb, and Hg based optical lattice clocks and their applications

Hidetoshi Katori, Ichiro Ushijima, Manoj Das, Nils Nemitz, T. Ohkubo, K. Yamanaka, Noriaki Ohmae, T. Takano, Tomoya Akatsuka, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Masao Takamoto

Published Jan 1, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report recent progress of optical lattice clocks with strontium, ytterbium and mercury atoms with an emphasis on their synchronous frequency comparison inside a laboratory and inter-laboratories connected by a phase-stabilized fiber link.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2015.sf1l.1

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