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Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements with a Fractional Uncertainty at 1 x 10 -15

June 5, 2006
Author(s)
Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg, Kyoungsik Kim, Elizabeth A. Donley, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts, Filippo Levi, Thomas E. Parker, James C. Bergquist, Wayne M. Itano, Marie J. Jensen, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Tara M. Fortier, J Torgerson
We report the technical details specific to our recent measurements of the optical frequency of the mercury single-ion clock in terms of the SI second as realized by the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock. In these measurements the total fractional uncertainty

Blackbody radiation shift of the 27 Al + 1 S 0 - 3 P 0 transition

March 27, 2006
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, Wayne M. Itano, Piet Schmidt, David Hume, Jeroen Koelemeij, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
The differential polarizability, due to near-infrared light at 1126 nm, of the 27Al + 1S 0 – 3P 0 transition is measured to be {Δ}α = (1.6 ± x 10 -31 m 3, where {Δ}α = α P - α S is the difference between the excited and ground state polarizabilities. This

Trapped Atomic Ions and Quantum Information Processing

January 1, 2006
Author(s)
David J. Wineland, Dietrich G. Leibfried, James C. Bergquist, R B. Blakestad, John J. Bollinger, Joseph W. Britton, J Chiaverini, Ryan Epstein, David Hume, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, E Knill, Jeroen Koelemeij, Christopher Langer, R Ozeri, Rainer Reichle, Till P. Rosenband, T Schaetz, Piet Schmidt, Signe Seidelin, Nobuyasu Shiga, Janus Wesenberg

Spectroscopy Using Quantum Logic

July 29, 2005
Author(s)
Piet Schmidt, Till P. Rosenband, C. Langer, Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
We have demonstrated experimentally a general technique for precision spectroscopy of atoms that lack suitable transitions for efficient laser cooling, internal state preparation, and detection. In our implementation with trapped atomic ions, an auxillary

Spectroscopy of a single Al + ion via coupling to Be +

July 25, 2005
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, Piet Schmidt, Jeroen Koelemeij, Wayne M. Itano, Yohei Kobayashi, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
We perform precision spectroscopy on 27Al + with the aid of a 9Be + ion. Using sympathetic cooling and quantum state transfer, we efficiently interrogate the 1S 0 – 3P 1 and 1S 0 – 3P 0 transitions.

Measurement of the Quadrupole Moment in the Mercury Ion Optical Clock

July 21, 2005
Author(s)
Windell Oskay, Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist
We report a measurement of the 199Hg + 5d 96 s 2 2 d5/2 electric quadrupole moment and discuss its implications for the accruacy of an optical clock based upon 2S 1/2(F=0)<-> 2 d5/2(F=2) transition at 282 nm.

Quantum Control, Quantum Information Processing, and Quantum-Limited Metrology With Trapped Ions

June 19, 2005
Author(s)
David J. Wineland, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Murray D. Barrett, A. Ben-Kish, James C. Bergquist, Brad R. Blakestad, John J. Bollinger, Joseph W. Britton, J Chiaverini, B. L. DeMarco, David Hume, Wayne M. Itano, M J. Jensen, John D. Jost, Emanuel H. Knill, Jeroen Koelemeij, C. Langer, Windell Oskay, R Ozeri, Rainer Reichle, Till P. Rosenband, Tobias Schaetz, Piet Schmidt, Signe Seidelin
We briefly discuss recent experiments on quantum informaiton processing using trapped ions at NIST. A central theme of this work has been to increase our capabilities in terms of quantum computing protocols, but we have also been interested in applying the

Femtosecond laser frequency combs: optical synthesizers for precision spectroscopy and frequency metrology

June 12, 2005
Author(s)
Scott A. Diddams, A Bartels, Tara M. Fortier, Eugene N. Ivanov, Kyoungsik Kim, John J. McFerran, Windell Oskay, G Wilpers, Christopher W. Oates, James C. Bergquist, Leo W. Hollberg, Vladislav Gerginov, C E. Tanner
A femtosecond laser frequency comb (FLFC) is the broadband (octave-spanning) evenly-spaced array of optical frequencies that is present in the output of a femtosecond mode-locked laser. Such frequency combs immediately found wide-spread use in optical

Ultra-high Stability Optical Frequency Standard Based on Laser-Cooled Neutral Calcium

May 22, 2005
Author(s)
G Wilpers, Christopher W. Oates, Scott A. Diddams, A Bartels, Windell Oskay, James C. Bergquist, Leo W. Hollberg
A beatnote between the Ca and Hg+ optical frequency standards via a mode-locked fs-laser frequency comb demonstrates the highest frequency stability measured to date. The high stability accelerates evaluation of the Ca standard's systematic shifts.

Optical frequency / wavelentgh references

April 25, 2005
Author(s)
Leo W. Hollberg, Christopher W. Oates, G Wilpers, C Hoyt, Zeb Barber, Scott A. Diddams, W Oskay, James C. Bergquist
Ideas for using visible light from atomic transitions for precision instrumentation and metrology go back at least to the 1800's. There are several good reasons to use optical frequencies, and with the scientific and technological advances of the last

Standards of time and frequency at the outset of the 21st century

November 19, 2004
Author(s)
Scott Diddams, James C. Bergquist, Steven R. Jefferts, Christopher W. Oates
In this paper we review state-of-the-art atomic time and frequency standards and discuss some of their uses in science and technology. After fifty years of development, microwave atomic clocks based on cesium have achieved fractional uncertainties below 1

Delivery of High Stability Optical and Microwave Frequency Standards Over an Optical Fiber Network

July 1, 2003
Author(s)
Jun Ye, J L. Peng, R J. Jones, K W. Holman, John L. Hall, D J. Jones, Scott A. Diddams, John E. Kitching, S Bize, James C. Bergquist, Leo W. Hollberg, Lennart Robertsson, L -. Ma
Optical and radio frequency standards located in JILA and NIST laboratories have been connected through a 6.9 km roundtrip optical fiber link. An optical frequency standard based on an Iodine stabilized Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm with an instability of

Ion Optical Clocks and Quantum Information Processing

May 1, 2003
Author(s)
David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist, Till P. Rosenband, Piet Schmidt, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger, Dietrich G. Leibfried, W Oskay
We summarize experiments at NIST that (1) use guantum gates to entabgle ions and thereby improve the measurement signal-to-noise ratio in spectroscopy and (2) implement sympathetic cooling and quantum state transfer techniques, which might be used to