IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Optical MEMS

Microfabricated atomic clocks and magnetometers

Svenja A. Knappe, Peter D. D. Schwindt, Vladislav P. Gerginov, Vishal Shah, Li‐Anne Liew, John Moreland, H. G. Robinson, Leo W. Hollberg, John E. Kitching

Published Oct 11, 2006• 2 citations

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Abstract

We demonstrate the critical subsystems of compact atomic clocks and magnetometers based on microfabricated physics packages. The clock components have a volume below 5 cm3, a fractional frequency instability below 6times10-10tau1/2, and consume 200 mW of power. The magnetometer has a sensitivity below 40pT/Hz1/2at 50 Hz

DOI: 10.1109/omems.2005.1540145

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