Optical clock

An optical clock is a type of atomic clock that uses an atomic transition in the optical range, such as the 728 nm transition in singly-ionized calcium. State-of-art optical clocks, which can measure atomic clock transition frequencies to better than one part in one million billion, represent the most precise measurements in the world.[1] The precision of a clock is the smallest unit of time it can measure, and comes from counting oscillations of visible light, which oscillates at approximately 700 quadrillion times a second. These oscillations divide a second into 700 quadrillion intervals, with each of those intervals being roughly 10-18 seconds. By counting oscillations of laser light, one can measure time to within one such interval. The laser light is stabilized by the atomic transition; the trapped atom or atoms are excited when the laser light is resonant with the transition frequency. Oscillations of light in the optical range are counted using a frequency comb.

Optical clocks are a subset of atomic clocks, which measure electromagnetic radiation, typically microwaves. Optical light oscillates at frequencies near 500 THz, more than 50,000 times faster than the cesium microwave clock. For this reason, optical clocks are expected to replace microwave caesium clocks as the definition of the second.[2][3] John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hansch shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to optical clock development.

Overview

The development of femtosecond frequency combs and optical lattices has led to a new generation of atomic clocks. These clocks are based on atomic transitions that are resonant with visible light instead of microwave radiation.

The major obstacle in operating an optical clock was the difficulty of directly measuring optical frequencies. Before the demonstration of the frequency comb in 2000, terahertz techniques were needed to bridge the gap between radio and optical frequencies, and the systems for doing so were cumbersome and complicated. This problem has been solved with the development of self-referenced mode-locked lasers, commonly referred to as femtosecond frequency combs.[4] The frequency comb has dramatically increased accessibility and numerous optical clock systems are in development.[5]

Operation

The local oscillator is referenced to the clock transition. In optical clocks, the oscillator is laser light stabilized to the atomic clock transition.

Configurations

Optical clocks using neutral or ionized atoms are operated in a variety of experimental systems. For example, millions of neutral strontium atoms are trapped in an optical lattice,[3][6][7][8] which is composed of many shallow atom trap sites. Ion clocks such as the co-trapped aluminum and mercury ion clock[9] confine single or a few ionized atoms within a deep, well-isolated ion trap.[10] In atomic species with atomic transitions that cannot be read out with conventional lasers, a second atom with an accessible transition is co-trapped and coupled to the internal state of the clock ion, and the clock state is transferred to this co-trapped atom. This technique is known as quantum logic spectroscopy.[11] Clocks using neutral and ionized atoms form the bases for state-of-the-art optical clocks. These systems are carefully characterized to account for shifts in the resonant frequency of the atomic transition due to external electromagnetic perturbations.[12] Lasers and magneto-optical traps are used to cool the atoms for improved precision.[13]

Atoms used

Atoms used in optical clocks take advantage of a narrow electronic transition in the optical domain, often an electric quadrupole transition. The transition is used as a frequency reference for the clock laser. The wavelength required for the clock laser to reach this transition must be carefully considered when designing an optical clock. Otherwise very promising atomic species are not widely pursued because of inaccessible clock transitions, such as Th-229 and highly charged ions. In both of these cases, the clock transition is far into the ultraviolet. Laser technology at these wavelengths is not robust, and they must be operated in vacuum because air otherwise strongly absorbs light in this frequency range. Another desirable characteristic is an electronic structure amenable to laser cooling. If the atom or ion cannot be reliably laser cooled, it must be co-trapped with another, easily coolable, atomic species that can provide sympathetic cooling.[1] Other desired features include properties that reduce the effect of perturbations from external electric and magnetic fields, such as a large mass, and a reliable, long-term term source that can be sealed in vacuum for years.[14]

Several elements have been used in optical clocks, including magnesium, aluminum, potassium, calcium, rubidium, strontium, indium, ytterbium, mercury, and radium.[15] The frequency of a clock's electromagnetic radiation depends on the element that is stimulated. For example, calcium optical clocks resonate when red light is produced, and ytterbium clocks resonate in the presence of violet light.[16]

The rare-earth element ytterbium (Yb) is valued not so much for its mechanical properties but for its complement of internal energy levels. "A particular transition in Yb atoms, at a wavelength of 578 nm, currently provides one of the world's most accurate optical atomic frequency standards," said Marianna Safronova.[17] The estimated uncertainty achieved corresponds to about one second over the lifetime of the universe so far, 15 billion years, according to scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the University of Delaware in December 2012.[18]

History

2000s

See also: Optical lattice clock

The theoretical move from microwaves as the atomic "escapement" for clocks to light in the optical range, harder to measure but offering better performance, earned John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005. One of 2012's Physics Nobelists, David J. Wineland, is a pioneer in exploiting the properties of a single ion held in a trap to develop clocks of the highest stability.[20] The first optical lattice clock was completed by Hidetoshi Katori at the University of Tokyo in 2003, who had proposed the concept two years earlier. Another version of the optical clock was completed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2006, as a result of a research project that had started in 2000.[21]

2010s

In 2013 optical lattice clocks (OLCs) were shown to be as good as or better than caesium fountain clocks. Two optical lattice clocks containing about 10000 atoms of strontium-87 were able to stay in synchrony with each other at a precision of at least 1.5×10−16, which is as accurate as the experiment could measure.[22] These clocks have been shown to keep pace with all three of the caesium fountain clocks at the Paris Observatory. There are two reasons for the possibly better precision. Firstly, the frequency is measured using light, which has a much higher frequency than microwaves, and secondly, by using many atoms, any errors are averaged.[23]

Using ytterbium-171 atoms, a new record for stability with a precision of 1.6×10−18 over a 7-hour period was published on 22 August 2013. At this stability, the two optical lattice clocks working independently from each other used by the NIST research team would differ less than a second over the age of the universe (13.8×109 years); this was 10 times better than previous experiments. The clocks rely on 10 000 ytterbium atoms cooled to 10 microkelvin and trapped in an optical lattice. A laser at 578 nm excites the atoms between two of their energy levels.[24] Having established the stability of the clocks, the researchers are studying external influences and evaluating the remaining systematic uncertainties, in the hope that they can bring the clock's accuracy down to the level of its stability.[25] An improved optical lattice clock was described in a 2014 Nature paper.[26]

In 2015, JILA evaluated the absolute frequency uncertainty of a strontium-87 optical lattice clock at 2.1×10−18, which corresponds to a measurable gravitational time dilation for an elevation change of 2 cm (0.79 in) on planet Earth that according to JILA/NIST Fellow Jun Ye is "getting really close to being useful for relativistic geodesy".[27][28][29] At this frequency uncertainty, this JILA optical lattice clock is expected to neither gain nor lose a second in more than 15 billion years.[30][31]

In 2017 JILA reported an experimental 3D quantum gas strontium optical lattice clock in which strontium-87 atoms are packed into a tiny three-dimensional (3-D) cube at 1,000 times the density of previous one-dimensional (1-D) clocks, such as the 2015 JILA clock. A comparison between two regions of the same 3D lattice yielded a residual precision of 5×10−19 in 1 hour of averaging time.[32] This precision value does not represent the absolute accuracy or precision of the clock, which remain above 1×10−18 and 1×10−17 respectively. The 3D quantum gas strontium optical lattice clock's centerpiece is an unusual state of matter called a degenerate Fermi gas (a quantum gas for Fermi particles). The experimental data shows the 3D quantum gas clock achieved a residual precision of 3.5×10−19 in about two hours. According to Jun Ye, "this represents a significant improvement over any previous demonstrations". Ye further commented "the most important potential of the 3D quantum gas clock is the ability to scale up the atom numbers, which will lead to a huge gain in stability" and "the ability to scale up both the atom number and coherence time will make this new-generation clock qualitatively different from the previous generation".[33][34][35]

In 2018, JILA reported the 3D quantum gas clock reached a residual frequency precision of 2.5×10−19 over 6 hours.[36][37] Recently it has been proved that the quantum entanglement can help to further enhance the clock stability.[38]

2020s

In 2020 optical clocks were researched for space applications like future generations of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) as replacements for microwave based clocks.[39] Ye's strontium-87 clock has not surpassed the aluminum-27[40] or ytterbium-171[41] optical clocks in terms of frequency accuracy.

See [42] for a review up to 2020.

In February 2022, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported a "multiplexed" optical atomic clock, where individual clocks deviated from each other with an accuracy equivalent to losing a second in 300 billion years. The reported minor deviation is explainable as the concerned clock oscillators are in slightly different environments. These are causing differing reactions to gravity, magnetic fields, or other conditions. This miniaturized clock network approach is novel in that it uses an optical lattice of strontium atoms and a configuration of six clocks that can be used to demonstrate relative stability, fractional uncertainty between clocks and methods for ultra-high-precision comparisons between optical atomic clock ensembles that are located close together in a metrology facility.[43][44]

In June 2022, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan began using a strontium optical lattice clock to keep Japan Standard Time (JST) by incorporating it into the existing cesium atom clock system and using it to adjust the time signal.[45]

As of 2022, optical clocks are primarily research projects, and less mature than rubidium and caesium microwave standards, which regularly deliver time to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) for establishing International Atomic Time (TAI).[46] As the optical experimental clocks move beyond their microwave counterparts in terms of accuracy and stability performance, this puts them in a position to replace the current standard for time, the caesium fountain clock.[3][47] In the future this might lead to redefining the caesium microwave-based SI second, and other new dissemination techniques at the highest level of accuracy to transfer clock signals will be required that can be used in both shorter-range and longer-range (frequency) comparisons between better clocks and to explore their fundamental limitations without significantly compromising their performance.[3][48][49][50][51] The BIPM reported in December 2021 based on the progress of optical standards contributing to TAI the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) initiated work towards a redefinition of the second expected during the 2030s.[52]

In July 2022, atomic optical clocks based on iodine molecules were demonstrated at-sea on a naval vessel and operated continuously in the Pacific Ocean for 20 days in the Exercise RIMPAC 2022.[53] These technologies originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense have led to the world's first commercial rackmount optical clock in November 2023.[54]

See also

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