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Gabriela Martinez, Chao Li, Alexander Staron, John Kitching, Chandra Raman, William McGehee
Abstract
We demonstrate a passively pumped, chip-scale atomic beam clock fabricated using a stack of silicon and glass wafers. The device could additionally serve as a platform for compact atom interferometers and other future quantum sensors.
Martinez, G.
, Li, C.
, Staron, A.
, Kitching, J.
, Raman, C.
and McGehee, W.
(2023),
A chip-scale atomic beam clock, Nature Communications, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935976
(Accessed October 1, 2025)