METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING A REFERENCE FREQUENCY SHIFT

    公开(公告)号:US20240243543A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-18

    申请号:US18097963

    申请日:2023-01-17

    CPC classification number: H01S3/1305 H01S3/1303 H03L7/26

    Abstract: A method for compensating a reference frequency shift due to an interaction of resonant light provided by a resonant light source with atoms of an atomic beam crossing a resonant microwave cavity between light interaction zones includes toggling a wavelength of the provided resonant light between a main optical pumping transition, OPT1, and an alternate optical pumping transition, OPT2, of the atoms of the atomic beam while a frequency of the microwave probe signal fed into the microwave cavity is modulated with a frequency modulation depth, FMD. The method further includes computing a wavelength modulation compensation error signal, WM-CES depending on the measured signal amplitudes of Ramsey fringes used to control the frequency of the microwave probe signal fed into the microwave cavity.

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