Performance and Applications of an Ensemble of Atomic Fountains

Steven Peil, James Hanssen, Thomas B. Swanson, Scott Crane, and Christopher R. Ekstrom

Abstract:	The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) has four rubidium fountains that have been in operation for the past 1.7 years. Fountain performance and applications to timekeeping and to tests of Local Position Invariance are presented.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 44th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting November 26 - 29, 2012 Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center Reston, Virginia
Pages:	269 - 272
Cite this article:	Peil, Steven, Hanssen, James, Swanson, Thomas B., Crane, Scott, Ekstrom, Christopher R., "Performance and Applications of an Ensemble of Atomic Fountains," Proceedings of the 44th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, November 2012, pp. 269-272.
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