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Direct-connected three-zone linear ion well and ion alternating frequency-discrimination locking method thereof

An ion trap and ion technology, applied in the time-frequency field, can solve the problems of reducing the number of signal detections, large Dick effect, and narrowing the width of Ramsey fringes in the free evolution time, so as to improve the stability of the microwave clock, enhance the signal detection intensity, reduce the Effect of small dead time

Active Publication Date: 2019-05-21
LANZHOU INST OF PHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SPACE TECH
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The currently widely used microwave clock based on single-zone ion trap has two disadvantages. On the one hand, it cannot meet the requirements of low particle number density (to reduce the second-order Doppler effect) and state preparation and The high particle number density required for signal detection (to improve the efficiency of state preparation and the signal-to-noise ratio of signal detection), on the other hand, the single-zone ion trap microwave clock has microwave exploration, state preparation and signal detection in the same In the well region, the existence of optical paths for state preparation and signal detection will affect the design of magnetic shielding for the microwave search process
In addition, microwave clocks based on quadrupole-multipole partitioned ion traps, which have been studied more at present, also have a defect, that is, due to the two processes of microwave exploration and state preparation and signal detection in the ion trap system with this structure It must be carried out sequentially in stages, but not at the same time, which leads to a longer dead time of the microwave clock based on the ion trap structure, and a greater Dick effect. narrow Ramsey fringe width, you will have to reduce the number of signal detections, at the expense of reducing the signal-to-noise ratio of the microwave clock

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[0019] The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.

[0020] A kind of direct connection three zone type linear ion trap system of the present invention, such as figure 1 As shown, the ion trap system is a direct-connected three-area linear ion trap structure, and the three areas refer to a quadrupole trap ion confinement area and two sixteen-pole trap ion confinement areas (respectively marked as sixteen-pole trap I and II), the three regions are connected in a coaxial straight line in spatial position, and the quadrupole well is located in the middle of the system, and the two hexadepole wells are respectively located at both ends of the system, and the inter-trap electrodes include collimation electrodes 5 and The transition electrode 6 is connected, wherein the collimation electrode 5 is used to focus the ion cloud during the shuttle process between the quadrupole and the hexadepole trap, and the transiti...

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The invention discloses a direct-connected three-zone linear ion well and an ion alternating frequency-discrimination locking method thereof. In the realization process of a microwave clock, the ion state preparation and signal detection are completed in a quadrupole well, and the exploration of ions and microwaves are completed in a hexadecapole well; the ions trapped by the ion alternating frequency-discrimination locking method are divided into A and B ion clouds, which are respectively trapped and shuttled between I and II regions of the quadrupole well and the hexadecapole well to finallyrealize ion alternating frequency-discrimination locking. The method provided by the invention can further reduce the second-order Doppler shift caused by the collision and Coulomb repulsion betweenthe ions when the ions and the microwave interact while improving the ionic state preparation efficiency and enhancing the signal detection intensity to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the microwave clock, and can separately perform good closed electromagnetic shielding and ionic state preparation on the microwave exploration region and perform good optical path design on the signal detectionregion.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of time-frequency technology, and in particular relates to a direct-connected three-zone linear ion trap and an ion alternating frequency discrimination and locking method thereof. Background technique [0002] In frequency standards using atoms or ions as working substances, factors such as the Doppler effect, Dick effect, signal measurement times, and the free evolution time of ions or atoms in the Ramsey detection process are all important factors affecting the stability of atomic clocks. The currently widely used microwave clock based on single-zone ion trap has two disadvantages. On the one hand, it cannot meet the requirements of low particle number density (to reduce the second-order Doppler effect) and state preparation and The high particle number density required for signal detection (to improve the efficiency of state preparation and the signal-to-noise ratio of signal detection), on the other hand, the sin...

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IPC IPC(8): H01J49/42
Inventor 崔敬忠王朝全
Owner LANZHOU INST OF PHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SPACE TECH
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