swingbyte wrote: > G'day fellow time-nuts. > > I was just going through some old projects and found my old home-made > mass spectrometer. This was a project based on a design from either > Scientific American or The Amateur Scientist back in the '60s. I was > wondering if anyone here had heard of a similar project for a cesium > clock? Although my home built mass-spec wasn't in the same league as a > bought one, it did work and did get me a HD in physics! How hard is it > to make a cesium clock? Just thinking about it and wondering what is > actually inside the physics package. > > > Tim. > > Not a great deal:
A Caesium oven A mechanical collimator for the Caesium beam A pair of state selection magnets A Caesium detector A pair of Microwave cavities Bruce _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
