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Opt Lett. 2015 Sep 15;40(18):4249-52. doi: 10.1364/OL.40.004249.

High accuracy measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting in a ¹¹³Cd⁺ microwave clock.

Optics letters

K Miao, J W Zhang, X L Sun, S G Wang, A M Zhang, K Liang, L J Wang

PMID: 26371908 DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.004249

Abstract

A microwave frequency standard based on laser-cooled (113)Cd(+) ions has been developed in recent years, and the short-term frequency instability is measured to be 6.1×10(-13)/√τ. By comparing the Cd(+) clock to a superior frequency reference, the ground-state hyperfine splitting of (113)Cd(+) is measured precisely to be 15199862855.0192(10) Hz with a fractional precision of 6.6×10(-14). This result is consistent with previous results, and the measurement precision is improved by nearly one order more than the best result reported before.

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