Microfabricated alkali vapor cells with tunable He-Ne buffer gas mixture using reservoirs with laser-actuated break-seals
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| author | Carlé, Clément Mursa, Andrei Faure, Gabriel Keshavarzi, Shervin Tanguy, Quentin Klinger, Emmanuel Maurice, Vincent Boudot, Rodolphe Passilly, Nicolas |
| author_facet | Carlé, Clément Mursa, Andrei Faure, Gabriel Keshavarzi, Shervin Tanguy, Quentin Klinger, Emmanuel Maurice, Vincent Boudot, Rodolphe Passilly, Nicolas |
| contents | This letter reports on the generation of a tunable buffer gas mixture within microfabricated alkali vapor cells. We show that the combination of low-permeation windows with sequential openings of laser-actuated break-seals enables adjustment of a helium-neon (He-Ne) noble gas mixture, fully compatible with alkali metal dispensers. The gas reservoirs and the main cell cavities are initially sealed at the wafer level under distinct helium and neon atmospheres, respectively. Within each cell, after Cs vapor is released from the dispenser, the break-seals are successively actuated to incrementally increase the helium fraction in the buffer gas mixture. This process shifts the atomic clock frequency turnover temperature toward higher values. As an illustration, one of the fabricated cells was operated at 95$^{\circ}$C in a coherent population trapping clock, achieving a fractional frequency stability of 9$\times$10$^{-11}$ at one-day integration time. These results demonstrate the feasibility of precisely tuning buffer gas compositions in microfabricated vapor cells and support the suitability of He-Ne mixtures for miniature atomic clock applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Microfabricated alkali vapor cells with tunable He-Ne buffer gas mixture using reservoirs with laser-actuated break-seals Carlé, Clément Mursa, Andrei Faure, Gabriel Keshavarzi, Shervin Tanguy, Quentin Klinger, Emmanuel Maurice, Vincent Boudot, Rodolphe Passilly, Nicolas Atomic Physics This letter reports on the generation of a tunable buffer gas mixture within microfabricated alkali vapor cells. We show that the combination of low-permeation windows with sequential openings of laser-actuated break-seals enables adjustment of a helium-neon (He-Ne) noble gas mixture, fully compatible with alkali metal dispensers. The gas reservoirs and the main cell cavities are initially sealed at the wafer level under distinct helium and neon atmospheres, respectively. Within each cell, after Cs vapor is released from the dispenser, the break-seals are successively actuated to incrementally increase the helium fraction in the buffer gas mixture. This process shifts the atomic clock frequency turnover temperature toward higher values. As an illustration, one of the fabricated cells was operated at 95$^{\circ}$C in a coherent population trapping clock, achieving a fractional frequency stability of 9$\times$10$^{-11}$ at one-day integration time. These results demonstrate the feasibility of precisely tuning buffer gas compositions in microfabricated vapor cells and support the suitability of He-Ne mixtures for miniature atomic clock applications. |
| title | Microfabricated alkali vapor cells with tunable He-Ne buffer gas mixture using reservoirs with laser-actuated break-seals |
| topic | Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00172 |