New Ion Trap for Frequency Standard Applications

Abstract

We have designed and built a novel linear ion trap which permits storage of a large number of ions with reduced susceptibility to the second order Doppler effect caused by the RF confining fields. This new trap should store about 20 times the number of ions as a conventional RF trap with no corresponding increase in second order Doppler shift from the confining field. Other comparisons to standard RF ion traps will be made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA503708

Entities

People

  • G. J. Dick
  • J. D. Prestage
  • L. Maleki

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charge Density
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrodes
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Standards
  • Ion Traps
  • Ions
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Radiation
  • Resonance Radiation
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Software Engineering