{"id":4549,"date":"2010-11-04T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2010-11-04T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:37:06","slug":"so-you-want-to-build-an-atomic-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/11\/04\/so-you-want-to-build-an-atomic-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to Build an Atomic Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Paul: Till Rosenband from the Time and Frequency Division of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/index.html\">NIST<\/a> has released as open source software that they use to control some of their atomic physics ion trap experiments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Ionizer<\/h1>\n<h2>Summary:<\/h2>\n<p>Control-software for atomic physics experiments in ion traps.<br \/>\nLaserBrothers software automatically re-locks lasers to reference cavities, and doubling-cavities to lasers.<br \/>\nAluminizer software controls the NIST aluminum ion clock.  This is an application  with a graphical front-end (client) to an FPGA-based pulse-sequencer  (server).  Pulse-sequences are written as object-oriented C++ programs  with timing resolution of 10 ns and jitter of about 1 ns.  Many  calibrations are performed automatically.  This program is written  specifically to control the NIST Al+\/Mg+ clock, but effort was made to  keep the code general enough to adapt to other tasks.<br \/>\nLabAC software controls a laboratory air-conditioning system. THIS CODE HAS NOT YET BEEN UPLOADED.<br \/>\nBullsIon software shows the coordinates of a laser-beam that&#8217;s on a webcam. THIS CODE HAS NOT YET BEEN UPLOADED.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you happen to be a tech mogul who has enough dollars to start your own lab, this looks like some good stuff for setting up your own ion trap experiments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Paul: Till Rosenband from the Time and Frequency Division of NIST has released as open source software that they use to control some of their atomic physics ion trap experiments: Ionizer Summary: Control-software for atomic physics experiments in ion traps. LaserBrothers software automatically re-locks lasers to reference cavities, and doubling-cavities to lasers. Aluminizer software &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/11\/04\/so-you-want-to-build-an-atomic-clock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So You Want to Build an Atomic Clock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}