2010/01/01 by S. Hannig, L. Pelzer, N. Scharnhorst +11 · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques #Aperture (computer memory) #Artificial intelligence #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Chaos control and synchronization #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Computer science #Conjunction (astronomy) #Doppler effect #Encoding (memory) #Information retrieval #Ion #Ion trap #JavaScript #Laser #Laser cooling #Programming language #Quantum #Quantum logic #Trap (plumbing) #World Wide Web #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.5090583
14 pages, 17 figures
openalex publication_date 2010/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · arxiv created 2019/05/14 · arxiv updated 2019/06/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/24
With the advent of optical clocks featuring fractional frequency uncertainties on the order of 10<sup>-17</sup> and below, new applications such as chronometric leveling with few-centimeter height resolution emerge. We are developing a transportable optical clock based on a single trapped aluminum ion, which is interrogated via quantum logic spectroscopy. We employ singly charged calcium as the logic ion for sympathetic cooling, state preparation, and readout. Here, we present a simple and compact physics and laser package for manipulation of <sup>40</sup>Ca<sup>+</sup>. Important features are a segmented multilayer trap with separate loading and probing zones, a compact titanium vacuum chamber, a near-diffraction-limited imaging system with high numerical aperture based on a single biaspheric lens, and an all-in-fiber <sup>40</sup>Ca<sup>+</sup> repump laser system. We present preliminary estimates of the trap-induced frequency shifts on <sup>27</sup>Al<sup>+</sup>, derived from measurements with a single calcium ion. The micromotion-induced second-order Doppler shift for <sup>27</sup>Al<sup>+</sup> has been determined to be δν<sub>EMM</sub>ν=-0.4<sub>-0.3</sub> <sup>+0.4</sup>×10<sup>-18</sup> and the black-body radiation shift is δν<sub>BBR</sub>/ν = (-4.0 ± 0.4) × 10<sup>-18</sup>. Moreover, heating rates of 30 (7) quanta per second at trap frequencies of ω<sub>rad,Ca+</sub> ≈ 2π × 2.5 MHz (ω<sub>ax,Ca+</sub> ≈ 2π × 1.5 MHz) in radial (axial) direction have been measured, enabling interrogation times of a few hundreds of milliseconds.