Bowden, W;
Hobson, R;
Hill, IR;
Vianello, A;
Schioppo, M;
Silva, A;
Margolis, HS;
... Gill, P; + view all
(2019)
A pyramid MOT with integrated optical cavities as a cold atom platform for an optical lattice clock.
Scientific Reports
, 9
, Article 11704. 10.1038/s41598-019-48168-3.
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Abstract
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 × 104 spin-polarized atoms of 87Sr 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.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A pyramid MOT with integrated optical cavities as a cold atom platform for an optical lattice clock |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-019-48168-3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48168-3 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112576 |
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