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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 98, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.062516
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Schi 431/15-1]
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Properties of persistent spectral holes (SHs) relevant for frequency metrology have been investigated in the system Eu3+:Y2SiO5 (0.5%) at crystallographic site 1 and a temperature of 1.2 K. Hole linewidths as small as 0.6 kHz have been reliably achieved. The theoretically predicted T-4 dependence of the frequency shift with temperature has been confirmed with high precision. The thermal hysteresis of the SH frequency between 1.15 and 4.1 K was measured to be less than 6 x 10(-3) fractionally. After initially burning a large ensemble of SHs, their properties were studied on long time scales by probing different subsets at different times. SHs could still be observed 49 days after burning if not interrogated in the meantime. During this time, the SH linewidth increased by 1.5 kHz, and the absorption contrast decreased from 35% to 15%. During a 14-day interval the absolute optical frequencies of previously unperturbed spectral holes were measured with respect to a GlobalPositioning-System-monitored active H maser, using a femtosecond frequency comb. The fractional frequency drift rate exhibited an upper limit of 2.3 x 10(-19) s(-1), 65 times smaller than the most stringent previous limit.
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