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Direct Laser Cooling Al$^+$ Ion Optical Clocks |
| Jie Zhang, Ke Deng, Jun Luo, Ze-Huang Lu** |
MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
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Jie Zhang, Ke Deng, Jun Luo et al 2017 Chin. Phys. Lett. 34 050601 |
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Abstract The Al$^+$ ion optical clock is a very promising optical frequency standard candidate due to its extremely small black-body radiation shift. It has been successfully demonstrated with the indirect cooled, quantum-logic-based spectroscopy technique. Its accuracy is limited by second-order Doppler shift, and its stability is limited by the number of ions that can be probed in quantum logic processing. We propose a direct laser cooling scheme of Al$^+$ ion optical clocks where both the stability and accuracy of the clocks are greatly improved. In the proposed scheme, two Al$^+$ traps are utilized. The first trap is used to trap a large number of Al$^+$ ions to improve the stability of the clock laser, while the second trap is used to trap a single Al$^+$ ion to provide the ultimate accuracy. Both traps are cooled with a continuous wave 167 nm laser. The expected clock laser stability can reach $9.0\times10^{-17}/\sqrt{\tau}$. For the second trap, in addition to 167 nm laser Doppler cooling, a second stage pulsed 234 nm two-photon cooling laser is utilized to further improve the accuracy of the clock laser. The total systematic uncertainty can be reduced to about $1\times10^{-18}$. The proposed Al$^+$ ion optical clock has the potential to become the most accurate and stable optical clock.
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Received: 19 January 2017
Published: 29 April 2017
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| Fund: Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2012CB821300, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 91336213, 11304109, 91536116 and 11174095, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents by the Ministry of Education under Grant No NCET-11-0176. |
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