TY - JOUR
AU - Eric Oelker
AU - Ross Hutson
AU - C. Kennedy
AU - Lindsay Sonderhouse
AU - Tobias Bothwell
AU - Akihisa Goban
AU - Dhruv Kedar
AU - Christian Sanner
AU - J. Robinson
AU - Edward Marti
AU - Dan-Gheorghita Matei
AU - Thomas Legero
AU - M. Giunta
AU - Ronald Holzwarth
AU - Fritz Riehle
AU - Uwe Sterr
AU - Jun Ye
AB - Optical atomic clocks require local oscillators with exceptional optical coherence owing to the challenge of performing spectroscopy on their ultranarrow-linewidth clock transitions. Advances in laser stabilization have thus enabled rapid progress in clock precision. A new class of ultrastable lasers based on cryogenic silicon reference cavities has recently demonstrated the longest optical coherence times to date. Here we utilize such a local oscillator with two strontium (Sr) optical lattice clocks to achieve an advance in clock stability. Through an anti-synchronous comparison, the fractional instability of both clocks is assessed to be 4.8x10<sup>-17</sup>/√τ for an averaging time τ(in seconds). Synchronous interrogation enables each clock to average at a rate of 3.5x10<sup>-17</sup>/√τ, dominated by quantum projection noise, and reach an instability of 6.6 x 10<sup>-19</sup> over an hour-long measurement. The ability to resolve sub-10<sup>-18</sup>-level frequency shifts in such short timescales will affect a wide range of applications for clocks in quantum sensing and fundamental physics.
BT - Nature Photonics
DA - 2019-07
DO - 10.1038/s41566-019-0493-4
N2 - Optical atomic clocks require local oscillators with exceptional optical coherence owing to the challenge of performing spectroscopy on their ultranarrow-linewidth clock transitions. Advances in laser stabilization have thus enabled rapid progress in clock precision. A new class of ultrastable lasers based on cryogenic silicon reference cavities has recently demonstrated the longest optical coherence times to date. Here we utilize such a local oscillator with two strontium (Sr) optical lattice clocks to achieve an advance in clock stability. Through an anti-synchronous comparison, the fractional instability of both clocks is assessed to be 4.8x10<sup>-17</sup>/√τ for an averaging time τ(in seconds). Synchronous interrogation enables each clock to average at a rate of 3.5x10<sup>-17</sup>/√τ, dominated by quantum projection noise, and reach an instability of 6.6 x 10<sup>-19</sup> over an hour-long measurement. The ability to resolve sub-10<sup>-18</sup>-level frequency shifts in such short timescales will affect a wide range of applications for clocks in quantum sensing and fundamental physics.
PY - 2019
EP - 714–719
T2 - Nature Photonics
TI - Demonstration of 4.8 x 10^(-17) stability at 1s for two independent optical clocks
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-019-0493-4$\#$Abs1
VL - 13
SN - 1749-4885
ER -