SI-traceable measurement of an optical frequency at the low 10−16 level without a local primary standard

H Hachisu, G Petit, F Nakagawa, Y Hanado, T Ido - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
H Hachisu, G Petit, F Nakagawa, Y Hanado, T Ido
Optics express, 2017opg.optica.org
SI-traceable measurements of optical frequencies using International Atomic Time (TAI) do
not require a local primary frequency reference, but suffer from an uncertainty in tracing to
the SI second. For the measurement of the^ 87Sr lattice clock transition, we have reduced
this uncertainty to the low 10^− 16 level by averaging three sets of ten-day intermittent
measurements, in which we operated the lattice clock for 10^ 4 s on each day. Moreover, a
combined oscillator of two hydrogen masers was employed as a local flywheel oscillator …
SI-traceable measurements of optical frequencies using International Atomic Time (TAI) do not require a local primary frequency reference, but suffer from an uncertainty in tracing to the SI second. For the measurement of the ^87Sr lattice clock transition, we have reduced this uncertainty to the low 10^−16 level by averaging three sets of ten-day intermittent measurements, in which we operated the lattice clock for 10^4 s on each day. Moreover, a combined oscillator of two hydrogen masers was employed as a local flywheel oscillator (LFO) in order to mitigate the impact of sporadic excursion of LFO frequency. The resultant absolute frequency with fractional uncertainty of 4.3 × 10^−16 agrees with other measurements based on local state-of-the-art cesium fountains.
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