High performance frequency standards

• Grant number: 05/04770-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: April 06, 2006
• End date: September 05, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Varela Magalhães
• Grantee: Daniel Varela Magalhães
• Host Investigator: Sebastien Bize
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Observatoire de Paris, France

Abstract

The project has as general objective the development of high precision frequency standards, one of the core activities of LNE-SYRTE. This work will be shared between two experiments: The atomic fountain FO2 and the neutral mercury optical clock (Hg clock). Both systems have great importance to the growing of our group in the scientific metrology of time and frequency area, either in the microwave standards domain, already operating in our laboratory, as well as in the optical domain area, prospecting future researchs to be implemented in the Optics and Photonics Research Center. It is important to emphasize that this work is intended for one year, with a complement for the five months period of FAPESP being supplied by the foreign institution. (AU)