Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology : University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 9-14 September 2001 / editor, Patrick Gill.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gill, Patrick, Dr.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology (6th : 2001 : Fife, Scotland)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frequency standards--Congresses.

Frequency standards.

Metrology--Congresses.

Metrology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (679 p.)

Place of Publication:

River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses the latest research ideas with application to frequency standards (e.g. optical clocks) and assesses ideas from previous symposia which have undergone critical analysis.

Contents:

Preface; CONTENTS; Oral Sessions; Part I Opening Session; Welcome and opening remarks; A Tribute to Helmut Hellwig; Fifty years of atomic frequency standards; Relativistic quantum theory of microwave and optical atomic clocks; Part II OPOs and IR Standards; Self phase-locked sub-harmonic optical parametric oscillators; Continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators as new tools for high resolution spectroscopy; Laser frequency standards with telescopic cavities; Part III Cs Fountains and Comparisons; Cs and Rb fountains: recent results; The atomic caesium fountain CSF1 of PTB

Systematic frequency shifts and quantum projection noise in NIST- FlCharacterization of the USNO cesium fountain; Comparing high performance frequency standards; Part IV Trapped Ions I; A mercury-ion optical clock; High resolution spectroscopy of a single In+ ion; A frequency standard using the 2S1/2-2F7/2 octupole transition in 171Yb+; Part V Optical Combs I; Optical frequency synthesis with ultrashort pulses; Phase-coherent measurement of optical frequency ratios with femtosecond lasers

Femtosecond optical frequency comb measurements of lasers stabilised to transitions in 88Sr+, 171Yb+, and I2 at NPLPart VI CPT Standards; Coherent population trapping and intensity optical pumping: on their use in atomic frequency standards; Compact microwave frequency reference based on coherent population trapping; The coherent population trapping maser; All-optical atomic clock based on dark states of 85Rb; Part VII Precision Measurements; A preliminary measurement of h/MCs with atom interferometry; Cold collision frequency shifts and laser-cooled 87Rb clocks

Metrology of hydrogen atom: determination of the Rydberg constant and Lamb shiftsPreliminary results of an accurate measurement of the 4He 23P0 - 23P1 fine structure interval; Part VIII Space Clocks; Cold atom clocks in space : PHARAO and ACES; PARCS: a laser-cooled atomic clock in space; New Michelson Morley experiment based on high-Q spherical resonators; Part IX Cold Atom Techniques; Continuous fountain Cs standard: stability and accuracy issues; Mirrors, waveguides and integrated circuits for cold atoms

Atomic multiple beam interferometers and atomic polarised beam interferometers among two excited statesPart X Microwave Standards; A microwave frequency standard based on laser-cooled 171Yb+ ions; Recent developments in cryogenic compensated sapphire oscillators; Current status of cryogenic (50K - 80K) secondary frequency standards for flywheels of atomic fountain clocks; Part XI Cold Atom Optical Standards; Spectroscopy of strontium atoms in the Lamb-Dicke confinement; A 40Ca optical frequency standard at 657 nm: frequency measurements and future prospects; Calcium optical frequency standard

Ultracold metastable calcium atoms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611929770

9781281929778

1281929778

9789812777713

9812777717