Temperature-shift-suppression scheme for two-photon two-color rubidium vapor clocks

Abstract

We propose a scheme for interrogating a warm rubidium vapor using two different clock lasers. Performance wise, this approach is distinctly different from the recently proposed two-color two-photon rubidium clocks as our scheme does not trade off the ac Stark suppression against an increased sensitivity to the cell temperature or pressure. Instead, our approach compensates both the ac Stark shift and the temperature and pressure-induced frequency shifts. The proposed scheme also makes use of the modulation transfer technique, which enables a two orders of magnitude increase in the signal-to-noise ratio compared to traditional clocks that rely on fluorescence measurements.