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  • 标题:A pyramid MOT with integrated optical cavities as a cold atom platform for an optical lattice clock
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  • 作者:William Bowden ; Richard Hobson ; Ian R. Hill
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:9
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-9
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-48168-3
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:We realize a two-stage, hexagonal pyramid magneto-optical trap (MOT) with strontium, and demonstrate loading of cold atoms into cavity-enhanced 1D and 2D optical lattice traps, all within a single compact assembly of in-vacuum optics. We show that the device is suitable for high-performance quantum technologies, focusing especially on its intended application as a strontium optical lattice clock. We prepare 2 × 10 4 spin-polarized atoms of 87 Sr in the optical lattice within 500 ms; we observe a vacuum-limited lifetime of atoms in the lattice of 27 s; and we measure a background DC electric field of 12 V m -1 from stray charges, corresponding to a fractional frequency shift of (-1.2 ± 0.8) × 10 -18 to the strontium clock transition. When used in combination with careful management of the blackbody radiation environment, the device shows potential as a platform for realizing a compact, robust, transportable optical lattice clock with systematic uncertainty at the 10 -18 level.
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