An optical lattice clock based on 87Sr is built at National Institute of Metrology (NIM) of China. The systematic frequency shifts of the clock are evaluated with a total uncertainty of 2.3×10-16. To measure it...An optical lattice clock based on 87Sr is built at National Institute of Metrology (NIM) of China. The systematic frequency shifts of the clock are evaluated with a total uncertainty of 2.3×10-16. To measure its absolute frequency with respect to NIM's cesium fountain clock NIM5, the frequency of a flywheel H-maser of NIM5 is transferred to the Sr laboratory through a 50-kin-long fiber. reference frequency of this H-maser, is used for the optical this Sr clock is measured to be 429228004229873.7(1.4)Hz. A fiber optical frequency comb, phase-locked to the frequency measurement. The absolute frequency of展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 91336212 and 91436104
文摘An optical lattice clock based on 87Sr is built at National Institute of Metrology (NIM) of China. The systematic frequency shifts of the clock are evaluated with a total uncertainty of 2.3×10-16. To measure its absolute frequency with respect to NIM's cesium fountain clock NIM5, the frequency of a flywheel H-maser of NIM5 is transferred to the Sr laboratory through a 50-kin-long fiber. reference frequency of this H-maser, is used for the optical this Sr clock is measured to be 429228004229873.7(1.4)Hz. A fiber optical frequency comb, phase-locked to the frequency measurement. The absolute frequency of