Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 11, 1106003(2023)

Research Progress of the Optical Frequency Standard

Guodong Zhao1,2, Xiaotong Lu1、*, and Hong Chang1,2、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Time and Frequency Primary Standards, National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710600, Shaanxi, China
  • 2School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 China
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    Figures & Tables(5)
    Operational principle of optical clocks
    Absolute frequency measurement principle of optical clock
    Absolute frequency measurements of the optical transitions adopted as the secondary representations of the definition of the second [red shaded areas represent CIPM 2021 recommended frequency values and their corresponding uncertainties (they are not the result of a weighted average of the data in the figures)]. (a) Absolute frequency measurements of the 87Sr optical lattice clock [JILA [67,93], LNE-SYRTE [68,92,94], NICT[95-98], National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ [99-100]),PTB[14,83,101-104],NIM [104-105],NPL [106],UT [69, 107],and NTSC [89]]; (b) absolute frequency measurements of the 171Yb optical lattice clock [NIST [71,80], KRISS [14,108-111], Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM [112-114]), RIKEN [84,91,115], NMIJ [116-121], and ECNU [86]]; (c) absolute frequency measurements of the 171Yb+(E2) optical clock [PTB [122-127] and NPL [7,128]]; (d) absolute frequency measurements of the 171Yb+(E3) optical clock [PTB [8,43,127, 129] and NPL [7,130-133]]; (e) absolute frequency measurements of the 40Ca+ optical clock [NICT [96,134], Universität Innsbruck (INNSBURK [135]), and APM [136-139]]; (f) absolute frequency measurements of the 88Sr optical lattice clock [LNE-SYRTE [140], UT [141-142], Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU [143]), University of Warsaw (UW[144]), and PTB [70]]; (g) absolute frequency measurements of the 88Sr+ optical clock (NRC [145-148] and NPL [63,149]); (h) absolute frequency measurements of the 27Al+ optical clock (NIST [80,150-151]); (i) absolute frequency measurements of the 199Hg optical lattice clock (LNE-SYRTE [37,85] and RIKEN [84,152]); (j) absolute frequency measurements of the 199Hg+ optical clock (NIST [47,53,153])(names marked with an "*" indicates that their absolute frequencies are obtained by frequency ratio measurement between different optical clocks)
    • Table 1. Systematic uncertainty and stability of representative single-ion optical clocks in the domestic and overseas

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      Table 1. Systematic uncertainty and stability of representative single-ion optical clocks in the domestic and overseas

      TypeInstitutionUncertaintyStability /[(τ/s)-0.5
      27Al+NIST9.4×10-19[461.2×10-15[46
      27Al+APM7.9×10-18[473.4×10-14[13
      171Yb+PTB2.7×10-18[131.4×10-15[13
      88Sr+NRC1.1×10-17[613×10-15[62
      88Sr+NPL4.9×10-17[632.2×10-14[63
      40Ca+APM3×10-18[563×10-15[56
      117In+NICT5×10-16[48-
      199Hg+NIST1.9×10-17[473.9×10-15[47
    • Table 2. Systematic uncertainty and stability of representative optical lattice clocks in the domestic and overseas

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      Table 2. Systematic uncertainty and stability of representative optical lattice clocks in the domestic and overseas

      TypeInstitutionUncertaintyStability /[(τ/s)-0.5
      87SrJILA2×10-18[344.8×10-17[79
      171YbNIST1.4×10-18[356×10-17[28
      88SrPTB2×10-17[701.6×10-16[70
      87SrPTB1.5×10-17[834.1×10-16[22
      199HgRIKEN7.5×10-17[842×10-15[84
      199HgLNE-SYRTE1.7×10-16[853.4×10-15[85
      171YbECNU1.27×10-16[86-
      171YbAPM-4.6×10-16[87
      87SrNIM7.2×10-18[881.18×10-15[88
      87SrNTSC5.1×10-17[894.7×10-16[89
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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Dec. 5, 2022

    Accepted: Jan. 6, 2023

    Published Online: Jun. 14, 2023

    The Author Email: Lu Xiaotong (luxiaotong@ntsc.ac.cn), Chang Hong (changhong@ntsc.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP223237

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