Magnetic field measurement based on a stimulated two-photon Raman transition

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/20/3/034206

Abstract The magnetic field in the microwave interaction zone of the fountain atomic clock was measured by stimulated Raman transitions. By measuring the two-photon transition frequency between the Zeeman levels of the two ground states, we achieved a magnetic field measurement accuracy of the order of 0.28 nT. This method is immune to the Doppler shift and the AC Stark shift. The second order Zeeman shift of the fountain clock is 170.7×10^-15, with the uncertainty of 7.2×10^-16.

Keywords: fountain atomic clock Raman transition second order Zeeman shift

Received: 12 June 2010
Revised: 15 July 2010
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PACS:	42.65.Dr	(Stimulated Raman scattering; CARS)
	95.55.Sh	(Auxiliary and recording instruments; clocks and frequency standards)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2005CB724506), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10604058 and 10974215), and by the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscop.

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Zhou Zi-Chao(周子超),Wei Rong(魏荣),Shi Chun-Yan(史春艳), Li Tang(李唐),and Wang Yu-Zhu(王育竹) Magnetic field measurement based on a stimulated two-photon Raman transition 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 034206

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