Dual-frequency optical-microwave atomic clocks based on cesium atoms

Tiantian Shi; Qiang Wei; Xiaomin Qin; Zhenfeng Liu; Kunkun Chen; Shiying Cao; Hangbo Shi; Zijie Liu; Jingbiao Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.528942

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 9, 1972(2024)

Dual-frequency optical-microwave atomic clocks based on cesium atoms

Tiantian Shi1...2,3, Qiang Wei4, Xiaomin Qin3, Zhenfeng Liu3, Kunkun Chen3, Shiying Cao5, Hangbo Shi3, Zijie Liu3, and Jingbiao Chen36,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²National Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro and Nano Manufacture Technology, Beijing 100871, China

³State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Institute of Quantum Electronics, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

⁴Chengdu Spaceon Electronics Co., Ltd., Chengdu 611731, China

⁵National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China

⁶Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

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