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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 5553-5568Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.445976
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- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [820404]
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The study presents a theoretical analysis of a realistic multi-level implementation to achieve inversion with minimal perturbations. A useful operating regime is identified where frequency shifts are small and controllable, weakly perturbing the clock transition.
A suitable scheme to continuously create inversion on an optical clock transition with negligible perturbation is a key missing ingredient required to build an active optical atomic clock. Repumping of the atoms on the narrow transition typically needs several pump lasers in a multi step process involving several auxiliary levels. In general this creates large effective level shifts and a line broadening, strongly limiting clock accuracy. Here we present an extensive theoretical study for a realistic multi-level implementation in search of parameter regimes where a sufficient inversion can be achieved with minimal perturbations. Fortunately we are able to identify a useful operating regime, where the frequency shifts remain small and controllable, only weakly perturbing the clock transition for useful pumping rates. For practical estimates of the corresponding clock performance, we introduce a straightforward mapping of the multilevel pump scheme to an effective energy shift and broadening of parameters for the reduced two-level laser model system. This allows us to evaluate the resulting laser power and spectrum using well-known methods. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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