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Light-Shift Suppression with Novel Variants of Adaptive Ramsey Spectroscopy
Published
Author(s)
Moshe Shuker, Juniper Pollock, John Kitching, Elizabeth Donley, Rodolphe Boudot, V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev
Abstract
We present a brief review of the rapidly growing field of autobalanced Ramsey spectroscopy followed by a detailed discussion and review of two novel techniques that were developed and tested in our laboratory: displaced frequency-jump Ramsey spectroscopy and combined error signal spectroscopy. These two techniques are related to, yet different from autobalanced Ramsey spectroscopy. The use of these techniques in a cold-atom clock based on coherent population trapping has reduced instabilities from variations in light-shift parameters by at least an order of magnitude. All of these techniques have in common that the Ramsey sequence adapts to cancel light shifts and drifts.
Proceedings Title
2019 Proceedings of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and
Time Forum
Shuker, M.
, Pollock, J.
, Kitching, J.
, Donley, E.
, Boudot, R.
, Yudin, V.
and Taichenachev, A.
(2019),
Light-Shift Suppression with Novel Variants of Adaptive Ramsey Spectroscopy, 2019 Proceedings of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and
Time Forum, Orlando, FL, US, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/FCS.2019.8856070
(Accessed October 12, 2025)