Abstract

A clock laser based on a 30-cm-long ultrahigh finesse optical cavity was developed to improve the frequency stability of the Sr optical lattice clock at the National Institute of Metrology. Using this clock laser to probe the spin-polarized Sr87 atoms, a Rabi transition linewidth of 1.8 Hz was obtained with 500 ms interrogation time. Two independent digital servos are used to alternatively lock the clock laser to the S₀1 (m _F =+9/2)→P₀3 (m _F =+9/2) transition. The Allan deviation shows that the short-term frequency stability is better than 3.2×10⁻¹⁶ and averages down followed by 1.8×10⁻¹⁵/τ.

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