A review of commercial and emerging atomic frequency standards

BLS Marlow, DR Scherer - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Atomic frequency standards are used to generate accurate and precise time and frequency,
enabling many communications, synchronization, and navigation systems in modern life …

How to build a magnetometer with thermal atomic vapor: a tutorial

A Fabricant, I Novikova, G Bison - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This article is designed as a step-by-step guide to optically pumped magnetometers based
on alkali atomic vapor cells. We begin with a general introduction to atomic magneto-optical …

Micro-fabricated components for cold atom sensors

JP McGilligan, K Gallacher, PF Griffin… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Laser cooled atoms have proven transformative for precision metrology, playing a pivotal
role in state-of-the-art clocks and interferometers and having the potential to provide a step …

Plasma-activated silicon–glass high-strength multistep bonding for low-temperature vacuum packaging

M Yu, L Zhao, Y Wang, Y Xia, Y Ma, Y Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Si-glass bonding is one of the most crucial vacuum packaging methods in semiconductor
devices; however, high temperatures (> 300° C) are required to achieve a high bonding …

Pulsed-CPT Cs-Ne microcell atomic clock with frequency stability below 2 × 10−12 at 105 s

C Carlé, M Abdel Hafiz, S Keshavarzi, R Vicarini… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report on the mid-term stability progress of a table-top coherent population trapping
(CPT) microcell atomic clock, previously limited by light-shift effects and variations of the …

Cs microcell optical reference with frequency stability in the low 10−13 range at 1 s

A Gusching, J Millo, I Ryger, R Vicarini, M Abdel Hafiz… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We describe a high-performance optical frequency reference based on dual-frequency sub-
Doppler spectroscopy (DFSDS) using a Cs vapor microfabricated cell and an external-cavity …

Suppression of the bias error induced by magnetic noise in a spin-exchange relaxation-free gyroscope

W Fan, W Quan, F Liu, L Xing, G Liu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin-exchange relaxation-free gyroscope (SERFG) is a promising rotation sensor, and the
bias error is one of its most important characteristics. It is identified that rotation …

Wafer-level vapor cells filled with laser-actuated hermetic seals for integrated atomic devices

V Maurice, C Carlé, S Keshavarzi, R Chutani… - Microsystems & …, 2022 - nature.com
Atomic devices such as atomic clocks and optically-pumped magnetometers rely on the
interrogation of atoms contained in a cell whose inner content has to meet high standards of …

Enhanced observation time of magneto-optical traps using micro-machined non-evaporable getter pumps

R Boudot, JP McGilligan, KR Moore, V Maurice… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We show that micro-machined non-evaporable getter pumps (NEGs) can extend the time
over which laser cooled atoms can be produced in a magneto-optical trap (MOT), in the …

Light-shift mitigation in a microcell-based atomic clock with symmetric auto-balanced Ramsey spectroscopy

M Abdel Hafiz, C Carlé, N Passilly, JM Danet… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The mid-term fractional frequency stability of miniaturized atomic clocks can be limited by
light-shift effects. In this Letter, we demonstrate the implementation of a symmetric auto …