Hi Attila, everyone, On 11/3/19 7:12 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
You do not need to replenish the Rb supply, as the Rb atoms do not get used up. They are free floating in vaccuum and get captured by the MOT. Thus, unlike the Cs beam's oven, which just spits the Cs atoms out, the MOT does not need a storage for Rb atoms. Of course, some of the Rb will get lost due to wall absorption, but that should be only a minor fraction. I would also suspect that the laser system will fail before the clocks run out of Rb atoms.
We were seriously considering the Muquans clock for a radio astronomy project. However, the company explained that the device has to be returned every 3 to 5 years for re-filling. Given the very remote location we were going to put these in, that was out of the question for us.
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