Program control in transition observation of strontium optical lattice clock
REN Jie1, LIU Hui1, 2, LU Ben-quan1, 2, CHANG Hong1, ZHANG Shou-gang1
Abstract:
To achieve the auto control of transition observation of the Optical
Lattice Clock transition developed by the National Time Service Center,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, a complete control system is designed. The
control system consists of a timing sequence control unit with delay
accuracy and synchronizing precision in μs level and a laser spectral
scanning control unit. The two units were both realized through the
virtual instrument exploited by LabVIEW software programming to control
the optical field and magnetic field precisely. The two-level cooling
and optical lattice trapping of strontium atoms are implemented and the
high signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) clock transition 1S0-3P0 spectral
line of strontium atom with a line-width of 180 Hz is obtained. The
spectral line with higher SNR and narrower line width indicate that the
optical lattice clock can operate in higher stability and whole control
system meets the precision requirement of the running of strontium
optical clock system. Moreover, the experiment demonstrates that the
control system has universality, and can be extended to other systems to
control the optical fields and magnetic fields.
Key words: strontium optical lattice clock sequence control spectral scanning control virtual instrument
圖 1 鍶原子光鐘實驗裝置示意圖(圖中MOT為磁光阱,Zeeman Slower為塞曼減速器,λ/2為二分之一波片,λ/4為四分之一波片,Fiber為光纖,HR為平面反射鏡,valve為角閥,PD為光電探測器,Shutter為機械開關,Pump為離子泵,Grating為光柵)Fig.1 Experimental setup of strontium optical lattice clock,where MOT means Magnetic Optical Trap,λ/2 means half-wave plate,λ/4
means quarter-wave plate,HR means high reflectivity mirror,PD means
photoelectric detector,shutter means mechanical shutter,pump means ionic
pump.