[time-nuts] New design of Cesium tube ?
Bill Janssen
billj at ieee.org
Thu May 12 23:33:18 UTC 2005
The MAy 2005 issue of IEEE Spectrum has a short article about a new design
of a Cesium standard. The inventor is John Kitching of NIST.
The claim is this new design will be less expensive and smaller than the
existing design.
I have included a couple of quotes from the article
"Right now the cesium-vapor chamber takes up a few cubic millimeters. Throw
in the laser, the optics and the electronics and were up to maybe a
cubic centimeter."
"Besides being cheap, the new atomic clocks will also be frugal with power"
So maybe when the existing Cesium standards wear out they can be replaced
with a new and cheaper one. I might even be able to afford a new one :-)
Bill K7NOM
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