Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• Navigation, positioning, and timing rely heavily on compact optical clocks.
  Warm vapor clocks utilize vapor cells near room temperature to maintain vapor
  pressure and thus do not require the complex cooling systems of cold atom clocks.
  Using the two-photon 5S1/2-5D5/2 transition of rubidium with the 6P3/2used as
  an intermediate stage one-color clocks can typically reach fractional stabilities in
  the order of 10−12 − 10−15 at peak performance. We show the architecture for a
  two-color clock using the same transition with temperature and AC stark shift sup-
  pression that could significantly improve fractional stability over other rubidium
  time standards. Before implementing several sources of frequency shift, our clock
  reaches fractional stability of 10−12 at one second with some fluctuations at longer
  timescales.

Creator

• Plocki, Alexandra

Date Awarded

• 2024-04-05

Academic Affiliation

• Physics

Advisor

• Schibli, Thomas R.

Committee Member

• Beale, Paul D
• Wise, Jonathan

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Last Modified

• 2024-04-22

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

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• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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