Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 9, 0902001(2020)

System Development and Clock Transition Spectroscopy Detection of Transportable 87Sr Optical Clock

Feng Guo1,2, Dehuan Kong1,2, Qiang Zhang1,2, Yebing Wang1、**, and Hong Chang1,2、*
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Time & Frequency Primary Standards, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710600, China;
  • 2School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    This work mainly presents the system development and clock transition spectroscopy detection of a transportable 87Sr optical lattice clock. The optical clock system uses a miniaturized physical system with a size of 120 cm×50 cm×60 cm, which connects the modularized sub-optical system through fibers. After subsequent to cooling with a first stage 461 nm laser and a second stage 689 nm laser, a cold atomic cloud with an atomic number of 1.02×10 6 and an atomic temperature of 5.45 μK is obtained. The lattice light with a magic-wavelength is used to load 87Sr in one-dimensional optical lattice with a lifetime of 434 ms, and an atomic temperature in lattice of 4.63 μK. The atoms are detected using an ultra-narrow linewidth 698 nm clock laser to obtain the clock transition spectrum with distinguishable sidebands, the degenerate spectrum with narrow linewidth, the spin-polarized spectrum, and the Rabi-flopping curve. The spin-polarized spectrum with linewidth of 11.79 Hz is obtained under the condition of clock laser interrogating, which is fairly close to the theoretical value of Fourier limit linewidth and can be as the frequency reference for the future optical clock closed-loop.

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    Feng Guo, Dehuan Kong, Qiang Zhang, Yebing Wang, Hong Chang. System Development and Clock Transition Spectroscopy Detection of Transportable 87Sr Optical Clock[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(9): 0902001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Atomic and Molecular Physics

    Received: Dec. 9, 2019

    Accepted: Jan. 19, 2020

    Published Online: May. 6, 2020

    The Author Email: Wang Yebing (wangyebing@ntsc.ac.cn), Chang Hong (changhong@ntsc.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.0902001

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