中国物理B ›› 2016, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (7): 73201-073201.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/7/073201

• ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS • 上一篇    下一篇

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

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)   

  1. Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics and Center of Cold Atom Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 收稿日期:2016-02-25 修回日期:2016-04-05 出版日期:2016-07-05 发布日期:2016-07-05
  • 通讯作者: Desheng Lü, Liang Liu E-mail:dslv@siom.ac.cn;liang.liu@siom.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:

    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).

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

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)   

  1. Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics and Center of Cold Atom Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • Received:2016-02-25 Revised:2016-04-05 Online:2016-07-05 Published:2016-07-05
  • Contact: Desheng Lü, Liang Liu E-mail:dslv@siom.ac.cn;liang.liu@siom.ac.cn
  • Supported by:

    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).

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摘要：

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.

关键词: laser cooling, space cold atom clock, magnetic field compensation

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.

Key words: laser cooling, space cold atom clock, magnetic field compensation

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