[time-nuts] Rubidium standard

[Bruce Griffiths]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message<4B0B0ED6.3080100 at xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:
>
>    
>> This lamp wear out mechanism is avoided if one uses laser interrogation
>> of the absorption cell.
>>      
> About that...
>
> Isn't that the sort of experiement we should try to lure Tom into doing ?
>
> There must be a way to create a DIY conversion of old Rb's to laser...
>
> Poul-Henning
>
>    
As in:
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/2232.pdf

Which uses injection locking to avoid generating the 6.834...GHz signal 
directly

Bruce