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English:
JILA’s three-dimensional (3-D) quantum gas atomic clock consists of a grid of light formed by three pairs of laser beams. A stack of two tables is used to configure optical components around a vacuum chamber. Shown here is the upper table, where lenses and other optics are mounted. A blue laser beam excites a cube-shaped cloud of strontium atoms located behind the round window in the middle of the table. Strontium atoms fluoresce strongly when excited with blue light.
Credit G.E. Marti/JILA
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Source | http://patapsco.nist.gov/imagegallery/details.cfm?imageid=1319 |
Author | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
, under the terms of
Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the
US Code
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