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Note: Pulsed optically pumped atomic clock based on a paraffin-coated cell
Haixiao Lin1, Jianliao Deng1, Jinda Lin1
1Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.
Abstract:
We report on the implementation of a pulsed optically pumped atomic clock based on a paraffin-coated cell. The relaxation times are measured, with the longitudinal relaxation time, T1 = 9.7 ± 0.4 ms, and the transversal relaxation time, T2 = 0.40 ± 0.03 ms. We demonstrated that the measured frequency stability of the clock is 3.9 × 10-13 τ-1/2 (1 s ≤ τ ≤ 100 s) and reaches a value of 3.1 × 10-14 for τ = 1000 s, where τ is the averaging time. This is an unprecedented result for a paraffin-coated vapor cell clock, and it makes significant contributions toward improving the performance of the wall-coated vapor cell atomic clock.
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