Abstract

We report a phase-sensitive microwave detection setup for spectroscopy of coherent population trapping (CPT) resonance in a Cs vapor cell. In this scheme, the optically carried microwave interrogation signal that interacts with atoms is detected by a fast photodiode at the cell output and is then mixed with the local oscillator microwave signal itself. This detection scheme produces at the output of the microwave mixer a dispersive CPT signal that can be directly used for correction of the local oscillator frequency onto the atomic resonance. The evolution of the dispersive CPT resonance signal with the laser power is briefly reported. With this detection scheme, we demonstrate the operation of a CPT atomic clock with a short-term fractional frequency stability of $1 \times {10^{- 11}}$ at 1 s, which is in good agreement with the slope of the frequency discriminator and the residual microwave phase noise of the setup.

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