Journal
CHINESE PHYSICS B
Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac5392
Keywords
sideband cooling; ytterbium; optical atomic clock; optical lattice
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U20A2075]
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In this work, detailed experimental research on pulsed Raman sideband cooling in a Yb-171 optical lattice clock is conducted. The study successfully demonstrates the cooling of atoms to the motional ground state, which is crucial for improving the performance of Yb lattice clocks.
Sideband cooling is a key technique for improving the performance of optical atomic clocks by preparing cold atoms and single ions into the ground vibrational state. In this work, we demonstrate detailed experimental research on pulsed Raman sideband cooling in a Yb-171 optical lattice clock. A sequence comprised of interleaved 578 nm cooling pulses resonant on the 1st-order red sideband and 1388 nm repumping pulses is carried out to transfer atoms into the motional ground state. We successfully decrease the axial temperature of atoms in the lattice from 6.5 mu K to less than 0.8 mu K in the trap depth of 24 mu K, corresponding to an average axial motional quantum number n(z) < 0.03. Rabi oscillation spectroscopy is measured to evaluate the effect of sideband cooling on inhomogeneous excitation. The maximum excitation fraction is increased from 0.8 to 0.86, indicating an enhancement in the quantum coherence of the ensemble. Our work will contribute to improving the instability and uncertainty of Yb lattice clocks.
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