[time-nuts] Yb clock - NPR Story on Atomic Clocks

Tom Van Baak (lab) tvb at leapsecond.com
Fri Aug 23 21:54:28 EDT 2013


All NIST papers are available for free. Makes you happy to be a taxpayer. The one you're talking about is at:
http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/2688.pdf

/tvb (iPhone4)

On Aug 23, 2013, at 3:03 PM, "John Miles" <john at miles.io> wrote:

> Don't you just love paying to access research that your taxes already paid
> for?  Gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling all over. :-P
> 
> -- john, KE5FX
> Miles Design LLC
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>> Behalf Of David McGaw
>> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:06 AM
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Yb clock - NPR Story on Atomic Clocks
>> 
>> Here is an announcement article:
>> 
>> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/08/21/science.1240420.full
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/23/13 10:51 AM, Frank Stellmach wrote:
>>> Wow, this new type of clock is not even 100 times more longterm stable
>>> than the Cs fountain clock, it's even short-term stable as a H-maser,
>>> obviously.
>>> 
>>> In the NIST article: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/clock-082213.cfm
>>> it's told, that the 1s instability is the same as the 400,000 sec or 5
>>> days stability of the Cs fountain clock, ie. 1e-15..1e-16, I assume.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps NIST can provide the Allan deviation already.
>>> 
>>> Frank
>>> 
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