Cesium Clock

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Cesium clock. The 5071a is the first cesium standard to specify stability for averaging times longer than 100 000 seconds approximately one day. The black units in the foreground are microsemi formerly sigma tau mhm 2010 hydrogen maser standards. Nist f1 contributes to the international group of atomic clocks that define coordinated universal time utc the official world time. Cesium beam frequency and time standard instruments from microsemi meet the most stringent requirements demanded by commercial military and space applications.
Cesium clock the cesium clock is the most accurate type of clock yet developed. Var clock new cesium clock starttime. This device makes use of transitions between the spin states of the cesium nucleus and produces a frequency which is so regular that it has been adopted for establishing the time. Nist f1 the nation s primary time and frequency standard is a cesium fountain atomic clock developed at the nist laboratories in boulder colorado.
To turn the cesium atomic resonance into an atomic clock it is necessary to measure one of its transition or resonant frequencies accurately. The caesium standard is a primary frequency standard in which the photon absorption by transitions between the two hyperfine ground states of caesium 133 atoms are used to control the output frequency. Create a clock that loops on christmas day 2013 and runs in real time. Cesium atomic clock the current time standard for the united states is a cesiumatomic frequency standard at the national institute of standards and technology in boulder colorado.
The rack mounted units in the background are microsemi formerly hp 5071a caesium beam clocks. Naval observatory in washington d c which provides the time standard for the u s. Winkler of the usno. This is normally done by locking a crystal oscillator to the principal microwave resonance of the cesium atom.
1 second 9 192 631 770 cycles of the standard cs 133 transition. The master atomic clock ensemble at the u s. So while magnetic cesium atomic clocks have served our industry well for more than 50 years the latest innovation in cesium atomic clock technology will empower our oscilloquartz range of cesium clocks to go further than ever before and meet the most stringent upcoming demands of commercial military and space applications. The first caesium clock was built by louis essen in 1955 at the national physical laboratory in the uk.
In 1967 a standard second was adopted based on the frequency of a transition in the cs 133 atom.