The Iqloc II team has published their article detailing the setup of an injection locked diode laser to the arxiv, Congratulations!

Abstract: Lasers with high spectral purity are indispensable for optical clocks and coherent manipulation of atomic and molecular qubits for applications such as...

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Benjamin Kraus successfully defends his PhD thesis. We congratulate him on this achievement.

The topic of his thesis is:

A highly stable UV clock laser

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Our collaborateurs at MPIK in Heidelberg have published a new paper in Physical Review letters detailing their search for dipole forbidden transtions in highly charged xenon for isotope shift measurements , Congratulations!

Abstract: Optical frequency metrology in atoms and ions can probe...

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Our collaborateurs at MPIK in Heidelberg have published a new paper in Review of Scientific Instruments detailing their highly charged ion retrapping and characterization of the magnetic field stability, Congratulations!

Abstract: We sympathetically cool highly charged ions (HCI) in Coulomb...

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Lukas Spieß successfully defends his PhD thesis. We congratulate him on this achievement.

The topic of his thesis is:

An optical clock based on a highly charged ion

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The Iqloc III team has just published an article in Optics express detailing their work on the setup of their spectroscopy laser at 267nm, Congratulations!  

Abstract: Providing phase stable laser light is important to extend the interrogation time of optical clocks towards many seconds and thus...

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The HCI collaboration has just published an article in Nature on the application of 40Ar13+ and 36Ar13+ as an optical atomic clock,  Congratulations!

Abstract: Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measurement devices ever constructed and have found many applications in fundamental science...

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Johannes Kramer successfully defends his PhD thesis. We congratulate him on this achievement.

The topic of his thesis is:

An aluminum optical clock setup and its evaluation using Ca+

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Lennart Pelzer successfully defends his PhD thesis. We congratulate him on this achievement.

The topic of his thesis is:

Robust artificial clock transitions by continuous dynamical decoupling in multi-ion calcium crystals

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The HCI collaboration has just published an article in Physical Review X on the application of a quantum logic like sequence for the cooling of weakly coupled modes in mixed Coulomb crystals, Congratulations!

Abstract: The majority of ions and other charged particles of spectroscopic interest lack...

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