Automatic compensation of magnetic field for a rubidium space cold atom clock

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/7/073201

Abstract

When the cold atom clock operates in microgravity around the near-earth orbit, its performance will be affected by the fluctuation of magnetic field. A strategy is proposed to suppress the fluctuation of magnetic field by additional coils, whose current is changed accordingly to compensate the magnetic fluctuation by the linear and incremental compensation. The flight model of the cold atom clock is tested in a simulated orbital magnetic environment and the magnetic field fluctuation in the Ramsey cavity is reduced from 17 nT to 2 nT, which implied the uncertainty due to the second order Zeeman shift is reduced to be less than 2×10^-16. In addition, utilizing the compensation, the magnetic field in the trapping zone can be suppressed from 7.5 μT to less than 0.3 μT to meet the magnetic field requirement of polarization gradients cooling of atoms.

Keywords: laser cooling space cold atom clock magnetic field compensation

Received: 25 February 2016
Revised: 05 April 2016
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PACS:

32.30.Bv

(Radio-frequency, microwave, and infrared spectra)

Fund:

Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2013YQ09094304), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11034008 and 11274324).

Corresponding Authors: Desheng Lü, Liang Liu
E-mail: dslv@siom.ac.cn;liang.liu@siom.ac.cn

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Lin Li(李琳), Jingwei Ji(吉经纬), Wei Ren(任伟), Xin Zhao(赵鑫), Xiangkai Peng(彭向凯), Jingfeng Xiang(项静峰), Desheng Lü(吕德胜), Liang Liu(刘亮) Automatic compensation of magnetic field for a rubidium space cold atom clock 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 073201

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