Ramsey Spectroscopy with Displaced Frequency Jumps

Abstract

Sophisticated Ramsey-based interrogation protocols using composite laser pulse sequences have been recently proposed to provide next-generation high-precision atomic clocks with a near perfect elimination of frequency shifts induced during the atom-probing field interaction. We propose here a simple alternative approach to the auto-balanced Ramsey (ABR) interrogation protocol and demonstrate its application to a cold-atom microwave clock based on coherent population trapping. The main originality of the method, based on two consecutive Ramsey sequences with different dark periods, is to sample the central Ramsey fringes with frequency-jumps finely-adjusted by an additional frequency-displacement concomitant parameter, scaling as the inverse of the dark-period. The advantage of this displaced frequency-jumps Ramsey (DFJR) method is that the local oscillator frequency is used as a single physical variable to control both servo loops of the sequence, simplifying its implementation and avoiding noise associated with controlling the LO phase. Compared to the usual Ramsey-CPT technique, the DFJR scheme reduces the sensitivity of the clock frequency to variations of the CPT sideband ratio and to the one-photon laser detuning by more than an order of magnitude. This simple method could be applied in a wide variety of Ramsey-spectroscopy based applications including frequency metrology with CPT-based and optical atomic clocks, mass spectrometry, and precision spectroscopy.

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