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Observation of Ramsey fringes using stimulated Raman transitions in a laser-cooled continuous rubidium atomic beam

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We performed the Ramsey experiment of optical separated oscillatory fields based on a cold continuous \(^{87}\hbox {Rb}\) atomic beam. The beam had a free evolution time of 3.4 ms over a short interaction-zone separation of 42 mm, producing a central Raman–Ramsey fringe with a linewidth of 146 Hz (full width at half maximum). This Raman–Ramsey interferometer based on an atomic beam offers a promising solution for developing a highly stable, compact atomic clock.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61473166) and the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program; Grant No. 2010CB922900). Yanying Feng would like to thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC No. 2011811180) for their support.

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    Yanying Feng & Zhaoying Zhou

  2. Joint Institute for Measurement Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Yanying Feng

  3. State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Hongbo Xue

  4. College of Mechanical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Xiaojia Wang

  5. Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Shu Chen

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Feng, Y., Xue, H., Wang, X. et al. Observation of Ramsey fringes using stimulated Raman transitions in a laser-cooled continuous rubidium atomic beam. Appl. Phys. B 118, 139–144 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5962-3

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