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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Optical lattice clocks

P. Lemonde

Published Jun 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The idea of using cold atoms confined in an optical lattice for an optical clock was proposed in 2001. Since then, this idea became an experimental reality. We review here the contribution of LNE-SYRTE to these developments.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2009.5192566

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