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It is important to understand the behaviour and limitations of the apparatus. This chapter describes the characterisation of some of the more important aspects of the experimental apparatus.
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Apart from a magnetically field sensitive D.Phil. student.
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We initially measured an anomalously small coherence time of \({{\sim }}200\,\text {ms}\). The cause of this was a faulty RF synthesiser with an intermittently locking PLL. We can thus claim to have built an atomic clock with higher performance than a broken RF synthesiser from the early 1980s.
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SRS785: DC to \(100\,\mathrm{kHz}\) FFT analyser.
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Newfocus 1437: \(25\,\mathrm{GHz}\) bandwidth photo-diode.
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Ballance, C.J. (2017). Experiment Characterization. In: High-Fidelity Quantum Logic in Ca+. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68216-7_6
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