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A Cavity-cell Assembly of Rubidium Frequency Standard Based on a Non-standard Rectangular Microwave Cavity

  • Han LI ,
  • Song-bai KANG ,
  • Peng-fei WANG ,
  • Feng ZHAO
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  • 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Atomic Frequency Standards (Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wuhan 430071, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2020-10-14

  Online published: 2020-12-31

Abstract

To meet the requirement of ultra-thin rubidium frequency standard, we developed a non-standard rectangular cavity based on the slotted-tube microwave cavity with 12 mm thickness and a field orientation factor of about 0.9. The data set of 87Rb double-resonance signals of the cavity-cell assembly was measured. The results showed that the intrinsic linewidth is about 452 Hz. With the optimized experimental parameters, the cavity-cell assembly has a potential short-term stability of 5.2×10-13τ-1/2 limited by the shot noise.

Cite this article

Han LI , Song-bai KANG , Peng-fei WANG , Feng ZHAO . A Cavity-cell Assembly of Rubidium Frequency Standard Based on a Non-standard Rectangular Microwave Cavity[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2021 , 38(2) : 249 -254 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr20202866

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