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article
FalkeSWMVWLGRSL2011
The 87-Sr optical frequency standard at PTB
Metrologia
2011
48
399-407
St.Falke
H.Schnatz
J. S. R. V.Winfried
Th.Middelmann
St.Vogt
S.Weyers
B.Lipphardt
G.Grosche
F.Riehle
U.Sterr
Ch.Lisdat
article
YudinTOBTPHMR2011
Atomic clocks with suppressed blackbody radiation shift
Phys. Rev. Lett.
2011
107
030801 - 1-4
V. I.Yudin
A. V.Taichenachev
M. V.Okhapkin
S. N.Bagayev
Chr.Tamm
E.Peik
N.Huntemann
T. E.Mehlstäubler
F.Riehle
article
Riehle2010
Hyper-Ramsey spectroscopy of optical clock transitions
Physical Review A (2010)
2010
We present nonstandard optical Ramsey schemes that use pulses individually tailored in duration, phase, and frequency to cancel spurious frequency shifts related to the excitation itself. In particular, the field shifts and their uncertainties can be radically suppressed (by two to four orders of magnitude) in comparison with the usual Ramsey method (using two equal pulses) as well as with single-pulse Rabi spectroscopy. Atom interferometers and optical clocks based on two-photon transitions, heavily forbidden transitions, ormagnetically induced spectroscopy could significantly benefit from this method. In the latter case, these frequency shifts can be suppressed considerably below a fractional level of 10<sup>-17</sup>. Moreover, our approach opens the door for high-precision optical clocks based on direct frequency comb spectroscopy.
Melville, NY: AIP
Englisch
ISSN 1050-2947 (print) ; ISSN 1094-1622 (online)
10.1103/PhysRevA.82.011804
1
V. I.Yudin
A. V.Taichenachev
C. W.Oates
Z. W.Barber
N. D.Lemke
A. DLudlow
UweSterr
ChristianLisdat
FritzRiehle
article
TaichenachevYOBLLSLR2009
Compensation of field-induced frequency shifts in Ramsey spectroscopy of optical clock transitions
JETP Letters (2009)
2009
90
11
713 - 717
We have extended Ramsey spectroscopy by stepping the probe frequency during the two Ramsey excitation pulses to compensate frequency shifts induced by the excitation itself. This makes precision Ramsey spectroscopy applicable even for transitions that have Stark and Zeeman shifts comparable to the spectroscopic resolution. The method enables a new way to evaluate and compensate key frequency shifts, which benefits in particular, optical clocks based on magnetic field-induced, spectroscopy, two-photon transitions, or heavily forbidden transitions.
Road Town, Tortola: Pleiades Publ.
English
ISSN 0021-3640
10.1134/S0021364009230052
A. V.Taichenachev
V. I.Yudin
C. W.Oates
Z. W.Barber
N. D.Lemke
A. D.Ludlow
UweSterr
ChristianLisdat
FritzRiehle
article
LisdatVMRS2009
Collisional losses, decoherence, and frequency shifts in optical lattice clocks with bosons
Physical Review Letters (2009)
2009
103
9
090801-1 - 090801-4
We have quantified collisional losses, decoherence and the collision shift in a one-dimensional optical lattice clock on the highly forbidden transition <sup>1</sup>S<sub>0</sub>-<sup>3</sup>P<sub>0</sub> at 698 nm with bosonic <sup>88</sup>Sr. We were able to distinguish two loss channels: inelastic collisions between atoms in the upper and lower clock state and atoms in the upper clock state only. Based on the measured coefficients, we determine the operation parameters at which a 1D-lattice clock with <sup>88</sup>Sr shows no degradation due to collisions on the fractional uncertainty level of 10<sup>-16</sup>.
Ridge, NY: APS
English
SN 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.090801
ChristianLisdat
WinfredVellore
ThomasMiddelmann
FritzRiehle
UweSterr
article
KraftVARS2009
Bose-Einstein condensation of alkaline earth atoms: <sup>40</sup>Ca
Physical Review Letters (2009)
2009
103
13
130401-1 - 130401-4
We have achieved Bose-Einstein condensation of <sup>40</sup>Ca, the first for an alkaline earth element. The influence of elastic and inelastic collisions associated with the large ground-state s-wave scattering length of <sup>40</sup>Ca was measured. From these findings, an optimized loading and cooling scheme was developed that allowed us to condense about 2Ã10<sup>4</sup> atoms after laser cooling in a two-stage magneto-optical trap and subsequent forced evaporation in a crossed dipole trap within less than 3 s. The condensation of an alkaline earth element opens novel opportunities <sup>1</sup><em>S</em>-<sup>3</sup><em>P</em> asymptotes.
Ridge, NY: APS
English
ISSN 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.130401
SebastianKraft
FelixVogt
OliverAppel
FritzRiehle
UweSterr
article
NazarovaLRS2008
A low frequency-noise diode laser for atom interferometry
Journal of the Optical Society of America B (2008)
2008
25
10
1632 - 1638
We investigate the influence of fast frequency fluctuations of the interrogation laser on the obtainable signal-to-noise ratio in Ramsey-Bordé atom interferometers. It is shown that the excessive high frequency noise of diode lasers can degrade significantly the signal-to-noise ratio in an atom interferometer. To overcome these limitations, we have devised a low-noise light source by frequency-filtering a diode laser in a high finesse cavity and further amplifying the transmitted power by injection-locking a solitary laser diode. When this laser source was used for atom interferometry with laser cooled calcium atoms, the signal-to-noise ratio could be further improved by a factor of 3.5 compared to the use of the unfiltered 1-Hz-linewidth laser source.
Washington, DC: OSA
English
ISSN 0740-3224
10.1364/JOSAB.25.001632
TatianaNazarova
ChristianLisdat
FritzRiehle
UweSterr
article
SchillerGNKWGKMMSRPTERKSTLHH2007
Optical clocks in space
Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
2007
166
300
arXiv: gr-qc/0608081
S.Schiller
A.Görlitz
A.Nevsky
J.C.J.Koelemeij
A.Wicht
P.Gill
H.A.Klein
H.S.Margolis
G.Mileti
U.Sterr
F.Riehle
E.Peik
Chr.Tamm
W.Ertmer
E.Rasel
V.Klein
C.Salomon
G.M.Tino
P.Lemonde
R.Holzwarth
T.W.Hänsch
article
VogtGNSRLT2010
Determination of the calcium ground state scattering length by photoassociation spectroscopy at large detunings
European Physical Journal D (2007)
2007
44
73 - 79
Photoassociation spectroscopy was used to determine the s-wave scattering of <sup>40</sup>Ca atoms in their electronic ground state. Vibrational levels were observed in an extended range of up to 182 GHz below the dissociation limit 4s<sup>2 1</sup>S<sub>0</sub>-4s4p <sup>1</sup>P<sub>1</sub>. Thus, the frequency interval was nearly tripled, in which photoassociation was observed compared to previous measurements. The spectra were analyzed by means of quantum mechanical simulations.
Orsay [u.a.]: EDP Sciences [u.a.]
English
ISSN 1434-6060
10.1140/epjd/e2007-00175-8
FelixVogt
ChristopheGrain
TatianaNazarova
UweSterr
FritzRiehle
ChristianLisdat
E.Tiemann
article
GrainNDVLTSR2007
Feasibility of narrow-line cooling in optical dipole traps
European Physical Journal D (2007)
2007
We have investigated the influence of narrow-line laser cooling on the loading of Ca atoms into optical dipole traps. To describe the narrow-line cooling of alkaline-earth atoms in combination with optical dipole trapping, we have developed a model that takes into account the light shifts of the cooling transition in three dimensions. The model is compared with two experimental realizations of optical dipole traps for calcium at the wavelengths 514 nm and 10.6 ?m.
Heidelberg [u.a.]: Springer
English
ISSN 1434-6060
10.1140/epjd/e2007-00052-6
ChristopheGrain
TatianaNazarova
CarstenDegenhardt
FelixVogt
ChristianLisdat
E.Tiemann
UweSterr
FritzRiehle
article
PeikST2006
Laser frequency stabilization to a single ion
J. Phys. B.: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.
2006
39
145
E.Peik
T.Schneider
Chr.Tamm
article
NazarovaRS2006
Vibration-insensitive reference cavity for an ultra-narrowlinewidth laser
Applied Physics B (2006)
2006
84
4
531 - 536
We report a novel mounting of the reference cavity used for stabilization of the clock laser in an optical frequency standard. The cavity axis is oriented horizontally and the cavity is supported in its horizontal symmetry plane on four support points. The positions of the points were optimized by finite element analysis. A sensitivity to accelerations of 1.5 kHz/(m/s²) in the vertical and 14 kHz/(m/s²) in the horizontal direction was measured, which is a reduction in the vertical sensitivity by two orders of magnitude compared to the usual support from below.
Berlin [u.a.]: Springer
English
ISSN 0946-2171 (print) ; ISSN 1432-0649 (online)
10.1007/s00340-006-2225-y
TatianaNazarova
FritzRiehle
UweSterr
article
SchneiderPT2005
Sub-hertz optical frequency comparisons between two trapped <sup>171</sup>Yb<sup>+</sup> ions
Phys. Rev. Lett.
2005
94
230801
T.Schneider
E.Peik
Chr.Tamm
article
DegenhardtSLWSLNPSHR2005
Calcium optical frequency standard with ultracold atoms: approaching 10<sup>-15</sup> relative uncertainty
Physical Review A (2005)
2005
72
062111-1 - 062111-17
An optical frequency standard based on an ensemble of neutral calcium atoms laser-cooled to 12 ?K has been realized. By using ultracold atoms, one major previous source of uncertainty, the residual Doppler effect, was reduced. We show that cold collisions contribute a negligible amount to the uncertainty. The influence of a temporal evolution of the phase of the laser pulses used to interrogate the clock transition was measured and corrected for. The frequency of the clock transition at 657 nm was referenced to the caesium fountain clock of PTB utilizing a femtosecond comb generator with a fractional uncertainty of 1.2 x 10<sup>-14</sup>. The transition frequency was determined to be (455 986 240 494 144 ± 5.3) Hz, making the calcium clock transition one of the most accurately known optical transitions. A frequency stability of 3 x 10<sup>-15</sup> at 100 s averaging time was achieved and the noise contributions that limit to the observed stability were analyzed in detail. Additionally, the natural linewidth of the clock transition has been determined.
Melville, NY: AIP
English
ISSN 1050-2947
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.062111
CarstenDegenhardt
HardoStoehr
ChristianLisdat
GuidoWilpers
HaraldSchnatz
BurghardLipphardt
TatianaNazarova
Paul-EricPottie
UweSterr
JürgenHelmcke
FritzRiehle
article
PeikLSSTK2004
New limit on the present temporal variation of the fine structure constant
Phys. Rev. Lett.
2004
93
170801
E.Peik
B.Lipphardt
H.Schnatz
T.Schneider
Chr.Tamm
S.G.Karshenboim
book
KarshenboimPc2004
Astrophysics, Clocks and Fundamental Constants
2004
E. Peik (as editor and coauthor of two chapters)
Springer
Berlin Heidelberg
S.G.Karshenboim
E.Peik
book
Riehle2004
Frequency standards : basics and applications
2004
526 pages
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH
English
ISBN 3-527-40230-6
1
FritzRiehle
article
PeikT2003
Nuclear laser spectroscopy of the 3.5 eV transition in Th-229
Europhys. Lett.
2003
61
181-186
E.Peik
Chr.Tamm
article
WilpersBDSHR2002
Optical Clock with Ultracold Neutral Atoms
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002)
2002
89
23
230801-1 - 230801-4
We demonstrate how to realize an optical clock with neutral atoms that is competitive to the currently best single ion optical clocks in accuracy and superior in stability. Using ultracold atoms in a Ca optical frequency standard, we show how to reduce the relative uncertainty to below <sup>10-15</sup>. We observed atom interferences for stabilization of the laser to the clock transition with a visibility of 0.36, which is 70% of the ultimate limit achievable with atoms at rest. A novel scheme was applied to detect these atom interferences with the prospect to reach the quantum projection noise limit at an exceptional low instability of 4Ã10<sup>-17</sup> in 1Â s
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.230801
Ridge, NY: American Physical Society
English
ISSN 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.230801
1
GuidoWilpers
TomasBinnewies
CarstenDegenhardt
UweSterr
JürgenHelmcke
FritzRiehle
article
BeckerZNSSWP2001
High resolution spectroscopy of a single In+ ion: progress towards an optical frequency standard
Phys. Rev. A.
2001
63
051802(R)
Th.Becker
J. v.Zanthier
Yu.Nevsky
Ch.Schwedes
M. N.Skvortsov
H.Walther
E.Peik
article
BinnewiesWSRHMRE2001
Doppler cooling and trapping on forbidden transitions
Physical Review Letters (2001)
2001
87
12
123002-1 - 123002-4
Ultracold atoms at temperature close to the recoil limit have been achieved by extending Doppler cooling to forbidden transitions. A cloud of <sup>40</sup>Ca atoms has been cooled and trapped to a temperature as low as 6 ?K by operating a magneto-optical trap on the spin-forbidden intercombination transition. Quenching the long-lived excited state with an additional laser enhanced the scattering rate by a factor of 15, while a high selectivity in velocity was preserved. With this method more than 10 % of pre-cooled atoms from a standard magneto-optical trap have been transferred to the ultracoled trap. Monte-Carlo simulations of the cooling process are in good agreement with the experiments.
laser cooling
atom interferometry
ultracold atoms
English
ISSN 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.123002
TomasBinnewies
GuidoWilpers
UweSterr
FritzRiehle
JürgenHelmcke
T. E.Mehlstäubler
E. M.Rasel
W.Ertmer
article
ZinnerBRT2000
Photoassociation of cold Ca atoms
Physical Review Letters (2000)
2000
85
11
2292 - 2295
We present the first measurement of a photoassociative spectrum of an alkaline earth element near the dissociation limit. The observed spectrum of Ca<sub>2</sub> formed from cold atoms shows the regular vibrational series with the characteristic spacing of the 1/R<sup>3</sup> asymptotic potential. The interpretation is in principle simplified compared to previous measurements on alkali metals by the non-degenerate ground state and the missing hyperfine structure of <sup>40</sup>Ca. As an example we derive the natural decay rate of the excited atomic 4<em>p</em> <sup>1</sup><em>P</em><sub>1</sub> state from the positions of the observed vibrational and rotational resonances with reduced uncertainty compared to previous measurements.
Cold Ca Atoms
Ridge, NY: APS
English
ISSN 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2292
GötzZinner
TomasBinnewies
FritzRiehle
EberhardTiemann
article
BenDahanPRCS1996
Bloch oscillations of atoms in an optical potential
Phys. Rev. Lett.
1996
76
4508-4511
M.Ben Dahan
E.Peik
J.Reichel
Y.Castin
C.Salomon
article
SchatzLHRZ1996
First Phase-Coherent Frequency Measurement of Visible Radiation
Phys. Rev. Lett. (1996)
1996
76
1
18-21
We have determined the frequency of the <sup>3</sup><em>P</em><sub>1</sub>- <sup>1</sup><em>S</em><sub>0</sub> intercombination transition of atomic <sup>40</sup>Ca stored in a magneto-optical trap to be <em>δ</em> = 455986240493.95kHz with an estimated standard uncertainty of 0.43kHz (<em>δν/ν</em><10<sup>-12</sup>) using a phase-coherent optical frequency chain from the Cs atomic clock to the visible. This allows the realization of the SI-unit meter according to its definition by visible radiation with 25-fold reduced uncertainty compared to previous measurements.
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.18
The American Physical Society
English
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.18
HaraldSchatz
BurghardLipphardt
JürgenHelmcke
FritzRiehle
GötzZinner
article
RiehleKWHB1991
Optical Ramsey spectroscopy in a rotating frame: Sagnac effect in a matter-wave interferometer
Phys. Rev. Lett. (1991)
1991
67
2
177-180
A calcium atomic beam excited in an optical Ramsey geometry was rotated about an axis perpendicular to the plane defined by the laser beams and the atomic beam. A frequency shift of the Ramsey fringes of several kHz has been measured which is proportional to the rotation frequency of the apparatus and to the distance between the laser beams. The results can be interpreted in three equivalent ways as the Sagnac effect in a calcium-atomic-beam interferometer: in the rotating frame of the laser beams either along straight paths or along the curved trajectories of the atoms, or in the inertial atomic frame.
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.177
The American Physical Society
English
10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.177
F.Riehle
T.Kisters
A.Witte
J.Helmcke
Ch. J.Bordé
article
RiehleIH1988
Suppression of a Recoil Component in Nonlinear Doppler-Free Spectroscopy
Phys. Rev. Lett. (1988)
1988
61
18
2092-2095
A new method to suppress one of the two recoil components in saturation and Ramsey spectroscopy is presented. It is applied to the calcium intercombination line <sup>1</sup><em>S</em><sub>0</sub>-<sup>3</sup><em>P</em><sub>1</sub> (<em>λ</em>≅675 nm) by optical pumping of the calcium atoms from the metastable <sup>3</sup><em>P</em><sub>1</sub> state through the <sup>3</sup><em>S</em><sub>1</sub> state into the <sup>3</sup><em>P</em><sub>0</sub> or the <sup>3</sup><em>P</em><sub>2</sub> states. The suppression of the low-frequency recoil component could be deduced in saturated absorption from a narrowing and shift of the Lamb dip as well as observed directly in Ramsey fringe spectroscopy when the recoil doublet was resovled.
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2092
The American Physical Society
English
10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2092
FritzRiehle
J.Ishikawa
JürgenHelmcke
article
RiehleW1986
Establishment of a Spectral Irradiance Scale in the Visible and Near Infrared Using the Electron Storage Ring BESSY
Metrologia
1986
22
2
75 - 85
The electron storage ring BESSY was investigated for use as a primary standard of spectral irradiance at wavelengths between 400 nm and 1000 nm. A method was devised to transfer the spectral irradiance scale realized on to tungsten halogen lamps by means of a radiometer that measured either the spectral irradiance of BESSY or that of the lamps. The relative systematic uncertainty of the spectral irradiance produced by the storage ring was determined to be 0.3%. Presently, the calibration of tungsten halogen lamps as radiometric transfer standards of spectral irradiance from synchrotron radiation yields a relative systematic uncertainty of 0.8%, which is below the uncertainty that is currently achieved using black-body radiators. Spectral irradiances of tungsten halogen lamps measured by means of synchrotron radiation and by means of black-body radiation agree within the combined uncertainties of the two methods. We conclude from the investigations that a reduction of the uncertainty of the spectral irradiance of the storage ring to approximately 0.1% can be achieved if it seems worthwhile. Also, the uncertainty in the calibration of the spectral irradiance of tungsten halogen lamps could be reduced below 0.5% if desired.
IOP Science
10.1088/0026-1394/22/2/002
F.Riehle
B.Wende