First Commercial Prototype of an Optically Pumped Cesium-Beam Frequency Standard

Michel L. Baldy

Abstract:	Tekelec has developed the first commercial prototype of an Optically Pumped Cesium-Beam Frequency Standard with the specific support of the Laboratoire de I'Horloge Atomique (LHA) and the ~financial support of the French Military Administration (DGA). This work is based on years of experience of the LHA on cesium atomic clocks, especially on short atomic clocks and on the experience of Tekelec in time and frequency for systems (timekeeping, time distribution, synchronization, etc.) and components (quartz oscillators, rubidium atomic clocks, etc.). The first prototype is under characterization and the first results are presented in this paper.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 28th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 3 - 5, 1996 Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center Reston, Virginia
Pages:	281 - 288
Cite this article:	Baldy, Michel L., "First Commercial Prototype of an Optically Pumped Cesium-Beam Frequency Standard," Proceedings of the 28th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, December 1996, pp. 281-288.
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