Laser-pumped paraffin-coated cell rubidium frequency standard

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 111, 124906 (2012)

Laser-pumped paraffin-coated cell rubidium frequency standard Thejesh Bandi,a) Christoph Affolderbach, and Gaetano Mileti Laboratoire Temps-Fre´quence (LTF), Institut de Physique, Universite´ de Neuchaˆtel, Avenue de Bellevaux 51, 2000 - Neuchaˆtel, Switzerland

(Received 23 January 2012; accepted 18 May 2012; published online 21 June 2012) We have realized and studied a rubidium atomic frequency standard based on a paraffin-coated cell, exhibiting a short-term frequency stability