Attila, When researching ways to improve the 5065A (AKA the SUPER 5065A) I considered using a laser.
However the long term operation is hard to optimize. Tuning the laser is a combination of temperature and current to select the proper line. (and optics if you use a grating tuning) It's cumbersome at best even if you don't lock the laser to a Rubidium cell. Since I was able to get performance better than any published Rubidium standard using the regular RF excited lamps I decided "why go the Laser route?" Note this performance is better than the laser pumped experimental models in the literature. I'm sure once the diode technology becomes mature enough to be reliable you will start seeing them in commercial standards. Until then it is just fun to play with but not very sensible for reliable operation. Corby Dawson _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
