%0 Generic %1 sanner2017autobalanced %A Sanner, Christian %A Huntemann, Nils %A Lange, Richard %A Tamm, Christian %A Peik, Ekkehard %D 2017 %K Ramsey ions quantum_metrology %T Auto-Balanced Ramsey Spectroscopy %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02630 %X We devise a perturbation-immune version of Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields. Spectroscopy of an atomic clock transition without compromising the clock's accuracy is accomplished by actively balancing the spectroscopic responses from phase-congruent Ramsey probe cycles of unequal durations. Our simple and universal approach eliminates a wide variety of interrogation-induced line shifts often encountered in high precision spectroscopy, among them, in particular, light shifts, phase chirps, and transient Zeeman shifts. We experimentally demonstrate auto-balanced Ramsey spectroscopy on the light shift prone $^171$Yb$^+$ electric octupole optical clock transition and show that interrogation defects are not turned into clock errors. This opens up frequency accuracy perspectives below the $10^-18$ level for the Yb$^+$ system and for other types of optical clocks.

@misc{sanner2017autobalanced, abstract = {We devise a perturbation-immune version of Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields. Spectroscopy of an atomic clock transition without compromising the clock's accuracy is accomplished by actively balancing the spectroscopic responses from phase-congruent Ramsey probe cycles of unequal durations. Our simple and universal approach eliminates a wide variety of interrogation-induced line shifts often encountered in high precision spectroscopy, among them, in particular, light shifts, phase chirps, and transient Zeeman shifts. We experimentally demonstrate auto-balanced Ramsey spectroscopy on the light shift prone $^{171}$Yb$^{+}$ electric octupole optical clock transition and show that interrogation defects are not turned into clock errors. This opens up frequency accuracy perspectives below the $10^{-18}$ level for the Yb$^{+}$ system and for other types of optical clocks.}, added-at = {2017-07-18T14:01:01.000+0200}, author = {Sanner, Christian and Huntemann, Nils and Lange, Richard and Tamm, Christian and Peik, Ekkehard}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28107a6dbdba98cf130c24af0efe3844d/marschu}, interhash = {fe11c29cacdf61d6a380e0e34341ad99}, intrahash = {8107a6dbdba98cf130c24af0efe3844d}, keywords = {Ramsey ions quantum_metrology}, note = {cite arxiv:1707.02630Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures}, timestamp = {2017-07-18T14:03:20.000+0200}, title = {Auto-Balanced Ramsey Spectroscopy}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02630}, year = 2017 }