Cyclotron resonance withresolution: Anharmonic detection and beating a coherent drive with the noise
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 46 (5) , 2653-2667
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.46.2653
Abstract
We describe the detection of the radial motions of a trapped charge in a Penning trap via a fourth-order electrostatic coupling to the axial degree of freedom. Two basic approaches are demonstrated. The first uses a standard resonant drive to determine the cyclotron frequency and has a resolution of 0.1 ppb. The second approach beats the motion due to an off-resonant drive against the motion due to thermal drives to give a continuous phase-coherent monitor of the cyclotron motion with a resolution of 0.01 ppb. The inherent systematic shift of these ‘‘anharmonic-detection’’ schemes is discussed, and approaches are given to reduce or eliminate it.Keywords
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