August 25, 2008
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano, Till P. Rosenband, David Hume, P.O. Schmidt, Chin-Wen Chou, A. Brusch, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Robert E. Drullinger, Sarah Bickman, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
Frequency standards (atomic clocks) based on narrow optical transitions in 27Al + and 199Hg + have been developed over the past several years at NIST. These two types of standards are both based on single ions confined in Paul traps, but differ in the