Cavity-enhanced non-destructive detection of atoms for an optical lattice clock

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 27; no. 26; pp. 37099 - 37110
• Main Authors: Hobson, Richard, Bowden, William, Vianello, Alvise, Hill, Ian R, Gill, Patrick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 23.12.2019

We demonstrate a new method of cavity-enhanced non-destructive detection of atoms for a strontium optical lattice clock. The detection scheme is shown to be linear in atom number up to at least 2×10 atoms, to reject technical noise sources, to achieve signal to noise ratio close to the photon shot n...