[time-nuts] LED instead of discharge lamp for Rb vapor cell standards

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Feb 21 18:10:17 UTC 2018


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In message <20180221184928.1c9b4c3a4d2e762970b5b181 at kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali w
rites:

>So the Rb85 "notch" filter might not get rid of all the unwanted light
>and some of this might depopulate the excited state of the Rb87
>that are in the RF cavity.

I have a hard time seeing how you can not get worse S/N that way.

If you want to do it with a LED, I think it needs to be a stabilized
LED-Laser.


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