Optical Clock (IMAGE)

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Optical Clock

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This is a view into the ultrahigh vacuum chamber in which strontium atoms are cooled and stored. In the upper third of the window, the blue fluorescent light of a cloud of cold strontium atoms (Sr) is to be seen.

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