11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Effects of Wavefront Curvature in Optical Atomic Beam Clocks

14 Dec 2022, 16:30
15m
Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R5

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) PQS: Precision and Quantum Sensing Workshop Precision and Quantum Sensing Workshop

Speaker

Aidan Strathearn

Description

We develop an analytic model for atomic beam clocks, incorporating a realistic laser profile with wavefront curvature. Our model explains previous empirical observations about signal optimisation and enables further optimisation of stability and accuracy.

Primary author

Co-authors

Dr Ashby Hilton (University of Adelaide) Dr Elizaveta Klantsataya (University of Adelaide) Dr Rachel Offer (University of Adelaide) Prof. Tom Stace (University of Queensland)

Presentation materials