Atomic clocks and coherent population trapping: Experiments for undergraduate laboratories
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Atomic clocks and coherent population trapping: Experiments for undergraduate laboratories
We demonstrate how to construct and operate a simple and affordable apparatus for producing coherent effects in atomic vapor and for investigating their applications in time-keeping and magnetometery. The apparatus consists of a vertical cavity surface emitting diode laser directly current-modulated using a tunable microwave oscillator to produce multiple optical fields needed for the observati...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0002-9505,1943-2909
DOI: 10.1119/1.3120262