rubidium atomic standards
A modified C-field circuit for the rubidium atomic clock
The rubidium frequency standard is widely used in global positioning systems, 1,2 communication, navigation, and running survey systems owing to its excellent properties such as low weight, small volume, low power consumption, and high reliability. 3,4 The lamp-pumped rubidium atomic frequency standard (RAFS) arguably affords …
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Navigating More Precisely with Laser Clocks
pace-borne atomic frequency standards are the backbone of today's advanced satellite navigation and positioning systems. Rubidium* gas-cell clocks constitute the ideal frequency standard for this kind of space application, since they combine excellent short- and medium-term stability with small size, as well as low weight and power consumption.
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GPS Clocks, Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard (RAFS)
The Frequency Standards & Switches Group at Excelitas specializes in the production of Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standards, commonly known as "the clock," which is an integral part of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems. By ensuring precise positioning, navigation, and timing around the world, these clocks enable a wide range of ...
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE RELIABILITY OF RUBIDIUM …
The GPS program was designed with atomic frequency standards at the heart of the navigation payload. The choice of available frequency standards limited the number of options available ... for a rubidium standard to conform to the tighter cesium specification, an aging correction would have to be included. Two important considerations must be ...
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The Use of GPS Disciplined Oscillators as Primary …
Quartz, rubidium, and cesium oscillators have historically been the three types of frequency standards [1, 2, 3] used by calibration laboratories (cal labs). Quartz oscillators are the least expensive choice; rubidium oscillators and cesium …
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Improving the start-up characteristics of the rubidium atomic clock
For decades, the vapor-cell Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard (RAFS) has been the most extensively used form of the atomic clock globally, 1,2 with applications spanning from commercial to aerospace. 3 To a great extent, this phenomenon is attributable to the excellent performance of the rubidium atomic clock, which include a …
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Optics integrated compact cavity for rubidium atomic frequency standards
A compact magnetron cavity having integrated optics is designed and realized for a rubidium atomic clock that is being developed for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. This cavity comprises a cylindrical dielectric cell …
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Precise calorimetric rubidium mass estimation and its
Rubidium (Rb) lamps are one of the most vital components of rubidium atomic frequency-standards/clocks [1,2,3,4,5].A Rb lamp is utilized for optical pumping and state preparation inside the rubidium atomic clock physics package, to generate atomic signal through which the atomic stability is eventually transferred to a clock crystal …
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TECHNICAL MANUAL TM0110-2
The Rubidium Physics Package incorporates a rubidium cell, rubidium lamp, and servo electronics to utilize the ground-state hyperfine transition of the rubidium atom, at approxi-mately 6.834x GHz.The VCXO is locked to the rubidium atomic resonance in the following manner. The VCXO frequency of 50.255x MHz is an exact sub-multiple ( 36) of the
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RUBIDIUM ATOMIC FREQUENCY STANDARDS
Rubidium atomic frequency standards are being used increasingly in telecommunication applications, particularly wireless telephone networks. The possibility of frequency stability sufficient to eliminate the need for sched-uled re-calibrations, along with small size, low power require-ments, wide temperature range operation, and low cost, make
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laser heads for rubidium atomic clocks, " in International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2012, ... Optical frequency standards, or lasers stabilized to atomic or molecular transitions, are ...
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PRS10
The PRS10 establishes a new level of features and performance in atomic frequency standards. Its design provides the lowest phase noise, greatest versatility, and easiest path to system integration of any rubidium frequency standard available. ... Manufacturers of rubidium frequency standards sometimes use a crystal frequency that is an exact ...
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Temperature Coefficient Optimization of the Physics Package of Rubidium
The vapor-cell rubidium atomic clock is widely used in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and telecommunications. The sensitivity of temperature is one of the most important factors affecting the performance of rubidium Atomic Frequency Standards (RAFS). It plays a significant role in the long-term frequency stability of the …
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GNSS-grade space atomic frequency standards: Current status …
We estimate that a total of more than 1000 such standards were sent to space so far, the vast majority consisting of rubidium-cell frequency standards, Cs atomic beam frequency standards, and passive hydrogen masers. Finally, we review a variety of ongoing developments in view of future new generations of GNSS-grade SAFSs.
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Rubidium | Properties, Uses & Isotopes | Britannica
Rubidium (Rb), chemical element of Group 1 (Ia) in the periodic table, the alkali metal group. Rubidium is the second most …
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Demonstration of a Physics Package with High SNR for …
Abstract. The frequency stability of a rubidium atomic frequency standard (RAFS) depends mainly on the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of atomic discrimination signal …
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(PDF) Atomic Clock Performance Assessment of BeiDou-3
As the primary frequency standard, BDS-3 satellites include two clock types with the passive hydrogen maser (PHM) and the rubidium atomic frequency standard (RAFS).
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A Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard with …
Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard with Stability at 10−15 Level Operated Under Atmospheric Condition. Junyao Li1, Gang Ming2(B), Feng Zhao2, Fang Wang2, Pengfei …
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A Brief Notes To Time/Frequency Standards
Rubidium Standard: Rubidium is known as the secondary standard for time/frequency. The standard is calibrated using primary standard. Commercially available rubidium standards have a stability of about ± 5 in 10 11. Note that both Cesium and Rubidium are atomic standards and exhibit extremely high accuracy and ageing characteristics.
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Rubidium
One current use is in atomic clocks, though rubidium is considered less accurate than caesium. The rubidium version of the atomic clock employs the transition between two hyperfine energy states of the rubidium-87 isotope. ... National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, accessed November 2016. T. L. Cottrell, The Strengths ...
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HISTORICAL REVIEW OF ATOMIC FREQUENCY …
The Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard (Rb AFS) and Passive Hydrogen Maser (PHM) are at present the baseline clock technologies for the Galileo navigation payload. According to the present baseline, every satellite will embark two Rb AFSs and two PHMs. The adoption of a "dual technology" for the onboard clocks is
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A physics package for rubidium atomic frequency standard with a …
In this article, a new type of physics package with high signal to noise ratio for a rubidium atomic frequency standard is reported. To enhance the clock transition signal, a slotted tube microwave cavity with a field orientation factor of 0.93 and an absorption cell with the diameter of 30 mm were utilized in design of the cavity-cell …
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As of January, 2002, NIST's latest primary cesium standard was capable of keeping time to about 30 billionths of a second per year. Called NIST-F1, it is the 8th of a series of cesium clocks built by NIST and NIST's first to operate on the "fountain" principle. Other kinds of atomic clocks have also been developed for various applications ...
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A pulsed-Laser Rb atomic frequency standard for GNSS …
As shown in Fig. 2, a high-performing Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard (RAFS) satisfies this requirement. Its stability, expressed in terms of Allan …
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AR133-00 | AccuBeat
The AR133 family of products is AccuBeat's new generation multi-functional Rubidium Frequency Standard. The AR133 family of products includes several different sub versions and is one of the smallest atomic standards available today, where the accuracy and stability are derived from a quantum transition that occurs in a free rubidium atom.
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Frontiers | Development of Rb fountain clock for time keeping
1 Introduction. The quantum era in time and frequency metrology began when the SI unit second was redefined from an astronomical one to the hyper-fine transition frequency of Cs atoms [].Nowadays, Cs fountain clocks are employed as the primary frequency standards to realize the definition of the second [2, 3], and they have …
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Design of a Miniaturized High-Performance Rubidium Atomic …
Abstract A miniaturized high-performance rubidium atomic frequency standard (RAFS) is introduced in this paper. Physics package is composed of a newly developed slotted tube microwave cavity and a 87Rb spectral lamp with Xe as starter gas. Optical and hyperfine filter techniques are used in the design of the
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Build a 10MHz Rubidium Frequency Standard and Signal …
Finally, while it is an "Atomic" standard, it is not perfect, that is to say the Rubidium may not really be "spot" on (to borrow a phrase from that guy on EEblog). One of the two I have is off by 2e-10. The unit can be adjusted to be very close to "spot" on.
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RUBIDIUM ATOMIC FREQUENCY STANDARDS FOR GPS …
RUBIDIUM ATOMIC FREQUENCY STANDARDS FOR GPS BLOCK IIR W. J. Riley EG&G Frequency Products Salem, MA 01970 Abstract EG&G, Inc. has been selected to provide the Rubidium Abmic Frequency Standards (WS) for the GPS Block IIR NAVSTAR salelliks. %se satelliks will replenish and upgra& the space segment of the Global Positioning …
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Measuring The Accuracy Of A Rubidium Standard
by: Anool Mahidharia. May 27, 2015. A rubidium standard, or rubidium atomic clock, is a high accuracy frequency and time standard, usually accurate to within a...
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