On Tue, 1 May 2012 10:18:51 -0700
Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote:
The U shape is called the Ramsey Cavity:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/ramsey-lecture.pdf
Thanks a lot! That was exactly what i was looking for.
It took me a while to read the paper
Moin,
For some time now, i'm wondering why the microwave cavity of Cs
beam standards is U shaped. Ie why does the Cs beam fly first
trough the first subcavity, leaves it, flies a substantial
length trough free space, passes the second subcavity and
then goes to the detector.
If the interaction
The U shape is called the Ramsey Cavity:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/ramsey-lecture.pdf
/tvb
- Original Message -
From: Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 9:47 AM
Subject: [time-nuts] Cs beam cavity: why
Hi Attila,
On 05/01/2012 06:47 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
Moin,
For some time now, i'm wondering why the microwave cavity of Cs
beam standards is U shaped. Ie why does the Cs beam fly first
trough the first subcavity, leaves it, flies a substantial
length trough free space, passes the second
The tube is like an interferometer. Think of two telescopes
spaced apart x meters. It has the resolving power of an x
meter diameter telescope. It doesn't have the light gathering
power of an x meter telescope.
There is sufficient RF power to flip the state of all the Cs
atoms, so additional
