{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/low-drift-zeeman-shifted-atomic-frequency","title":"Low-drift Zeeman shifted atomic frequency reference","arxiv_id":"1804.07928","date":"2018-04-21","proceeding":null,"authors":["D. J. Reed","N. Šibalić","D. J. Whiting","J. M. Kondo","C. S. Adams","K. J. Weatherill"],"abstract":"We present a simple method for producing a low-drift atomic frequency reference based upon the Zeeman effect. Our Zeeman Shifted Atomic Reference `ZSAR' is demonstrated to have tens of GHz tuning range, limited only by the strength of the applied field. ZSAR uses Doppler-free laser spectroscopy in a thermal vapor where the vapor is situated in a large, static and controllable magnetic field. We use a heated $^{85}$Rb vapor cell between a pair of position-adjustable permanent magnets capable of applying magnetic fields up to 1 T. To demonstrate the frequency reference we use a spectral feature from the Zeeman shifted D1 line in $^{85}$Rb at 795 nm to stabilize a laser to the 7S$_{1/2}$ $\\longrightarrow$ 23P$_{1/2}$ transition in atomic cesium, which is detuned by approximately 19 GHz from the unperturbed Rb transition. We place an upper bound on the stability of the technique by measuring a 2.5 MHz RMS frequency difference between the two spectral features over a 24 hour period. This versatile method could be adapted easily for use with other atomic species and the tuning range readily increased by applying larger magnetic fields.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07928v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07928v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"low-drift-zeeman-shifted-atomic-frequency","repo_url":"https://github.com/nikolasibalic/ZSAR-Zeeman-Shifted-Atomic-Reference","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}