Abstract:
We have assessed the effect of optical lattice laser field parameters (polarisation, intensity, and wavelength) of a coldytterbium atomic frequency standard on the systematic uncertainty of precision clock transition frequency measurements. The spectrum and polarisation of the laser field of the lattice have been investigated in detail directly in the spatial region of interaction of cold ytterbium atoms with the laser field. The Stark shift of the clock transition in the vicinity of the magic wavelength of the laser has been estimated as a function of the experimentally measured laser field intensity in the dipole approximation. The estimates have been used to calculate the residual systematic uncertainty in the light shift of the optical lattice laser frequency.
Keywords:cold-ytterbium atomic frequency standard, portable frequency standard, magic intensity, magic polarisation, magic wavelength, light shift.