Magic Wavelength Measurement of the 87Sr Optical Lattice Clock at NIMSupported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 91336212

• Published in: Chinese physics letters 2016-10, Vol.33 (10)
• Main Authors: Wang, Qiang, Lin, Yi-Ge, Meng, Fei, Li, Ye, Lin, Bai-Ke, Zang, Er-Jun, Li, Tian-Chu, Fang, Zhan-Jun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0256-307X; 1741-3540
• DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/33/10/103201

We report on the magic wavelength measurement of our optical lattice clock based on fermion strontium atoms at the National Institute of Metrology (NIM). A Ti:sapphire solid state laser locked to a reference cavity inside a temperature-stabilized vacuum chamber is employed to generate the optical lattice. The laser frequency is measured by an erbium fiber frequency comb. The trap depth is modulated by varying the lattice laser power via an acousto-optic modulator. We obtain the frequency shift coefficient at this lattice wavelength by measuring the differential frequency shift of the clock transition of the strontium atoms at different trap depths, and the frequency shift coefficient at this lattice wavelength is obtained. We measure the frequency shift coefficients at different lattice frequencies around the magic wavelength and linearly fit the measurement data, and the magic wavelength is calculated to be 368554672(44) MHz.