In: Physical Review A, 2014, vol. 90, no. 1, p. 012505
The ac-Stark shift induced by blackbody radiation is a major source of systematic uncertainty in present-day cesium microwave frequency standards. The shift is parametrized in terms of a third-order electric polarizability α(3)0 that can be inferred from the static electric-field displacement of the clock transition resonance. In this paper, we report on an all-optical...
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In: Proceedings of the Annual IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, 2011, p. 1-4
We report progress in measuring the third order electric polarizability of the Cs ground states using a Ramsey pump-probe experiment on coherent population trapped (CPT) atoms in a thermal atomic beam. We give a short description of the apparatus as well as the Fourier transform method used to monitor the phase and frequency of the Ramsey signal. Analysis of a typical data set is shown, proving...
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