| Preface | |
| Welcome and opening remarks | p. 3 |
| Laser cooling of neutral atoms for frequency standards | p. 5 |
| Application of laser-cooled ions to frequency standards and metrology | p. 11 |
| Quantum motion of a trapped ion: Schrodinger cats, ion interferometry and quantum tomography | p. 20 |
| A microwave frequency standard based on trapped, buffer gas-cooled [superscript 171]Yb[superscript +] ions | p. 27 |
| Record frequency stability with mercury in a linear ion trap | p. 33 |
| High precision time transfer to test an H-maser on MIR | p. 39 |
| Preliminary accuracy evaluation of a cesium fountain frequency standard | p. 49 |
| Multipulse operation of cesium atomic fountain | p. 60 |
| Collisional effects in cold alkalis | p. 66 |
| Some considerations on the cesium atomic fountain standard | p. 74 |
| The stochastic realization shift and atomic clock operation | p. 83 |
| Cause and cures of a limitation to the frequency stability in passive frequency standards | p. 91 |
| A 10[superscript -15] international frequency reference available now | p. 97 |
| Spin squeezing applied to frequency standards | p. 107 |
| 3D cooling of cesium atoms with isotropic laser light | p. 115 |
| Generation of a continuous beam of cold cesium atoms | p. 121 |
| Tests of relativistic gravity with a low mass spaceborne frequency standard | p. 127 |
| Precision measurements in atomic hydrogen | p. 137 |
| High resolution spectroscopy of the hydrogen atom | p. 145 |
| High precision spectroscopy of the helium atom at 1083 nm | p. 151 |
| Absolute Measurement of the [actual symbol not reproducible] 411 nm interval, and the search for the [actual symbol not reproducible] 467 nm transition in laser-cooled trapped [superscript 172]Yb[superscript +] | p. 159 |
| Precision absolute frequency measurements with single atoms of Ba[superscript +] and Sr[superscript +] | p. 165 |
| Nonlinear optics for optical frequency synthesis and an optical divide by 3 | p. 171 |
| Applications of optically pumped mercury to fundamental measurements | p. 181 |
| Precision measurements with new hydrogen, rubidium, and noble gas masers | p. 187 |
| Atomic clocks and variations of the fine structure constant | p. 202 |
| Atomic and molecular interferometers: From basic concepts to applications as field sensors | p. 211 |
| Atom interferometers and precision measurements | p. 223 |
| Atomic cavities and traps | p. 231 |
| Interference fringes of the atom interferometer comprised of four copropagating traveling laser beams | p. 243 |
| Towards cavity quantum electrodynamics with slow atoms | p. 251 |
| Millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency | p. 259 |
| Optical frequency standards: Some improvements, some measurements, and some dreams | p. 267 |
| Optical frequency standard based on laser-cooled Ca atoms | p. 277 |
| Optical frequency standard investigations on trapped, laser-cooled [superscript 171]Yb ions | p. 283 |
| He-Ne/CH[subscript 4] laser frequency standard for precise measurements | p. 289 |
| New prospects for compact laser clocks | p. 299 |
| New approaches towards high precise, compact methane optical frequency standard ([lambda] = 3.3 [mu]m) | p. 305 |
| Toward the frequency measurement of a laser diode locked to 5S-5D rubidium two-photon transition (2 x 385 THz) | p. 310 |
| Experimental progress toward realizing a 3:1 optical frequency divider | p. 319 |
| Progress in an optical frequency comb generator | p. 327 |
| A cw optical parametric oscillator for optical frequency measurement | p. 333 |
| Optical frequency standard using individual indium ions | p. 341 |
| Frequency-stabilization of Nd: YAG lasers to room temperature and cryogenic cavities | p. 347 |
| Injection-locked Nd: YAG laser for the interferometric detection of gravitational waves | p. 353 |
| Precision spectroscopy of muonium | p. 361 |
| Two-photon spectroscopy of trapped atomic hydrogen | p. 365 |
| The dynamic free pendulum method for G measurement | p. 369 |
| Single-ion spectroscopy of indium: Towards a group-III monoion oscillator | p. 376 |
| The evaluation of NIST-7: A new era | p. 380 |
| Microwave spectroscopy of [superscript 171]Yb[superscript +] stored in a Paul trap | p. 387 |
| Precise temperature control for precision frequency standards | p. 389 |
| The impact of laser optical pumping on the physics and on the performances of the rubidium frequency standards | p. 392 |
| A novel high performance microwave local oscillator based on laser light modulation | p. 394 |
| A signal theory approach to the analysis of the Dick effect | p. 401 |
| Early stability test results for GPS block IIR rubidium clocks | p. 403 |
| Current status of the LPTF optically pumped Cs beam standard | p. 409 |
| The design of an atomic fountain standard prototype at NIST | p. 411 |
| The PTB's primary clock CS3 | p. 413 |
| Research on the cesium cold atoms at the Institute for Atomic Physics in Bucharest, Romania | p. 415 |
| Design and preliminary results of a vertical cesium beam frequency standard | p. 417 |
| Research on small optically pumped cesium beam frequency standards at Peking University | p. 419 |
| Optically pumped cesium clock operation with high spectral purity laser diodes | p. 421 |
| Quantum theory of laser cooling of the Paul trap | p. 425 |
| Minimizing time dilation in Penning trap ion clocks | p. 427 |
| Laser-cooled Ca[superscript +] -ions in a Paul-trap: influence of collisions | p. 430 |
| Characteristics of buffer-gas-cooled and laser-cooled Yb[superscript +] in rf traps | p. 432 |
| Laser spectroscopy of molecular iodine with a tunable semiconductor laser around 633 nm | p. 437 |
| Preliminary steps in Ca beam spectroscopy | p. 441 |
| Stabilized laser diode at 729 nm for a Ca[superscript +] optical frequency standard | p. 443 |
| Shift of diode laser frequency which locked to cesium D[subscript 2] line by the FM or ZM stabilization technique | p. 445 |
| Optical-microwave frequency standard based on the reference comb of the strong CH[subscript 4] lines ([lambda]=3.3 [mu]m) | p. 450 |
| Intensity and frequency resonances in a He-Ne/CH[subscript 4] laser with synchronized modes | p. 454 |
| Observation of OsO[subscript 4] absorption line in a thermal molecular beam | p. 456 |
| Frequency stabilization of a semiconductor laser under some direct FSK modulation techniques | p. 458 |
| Stabilized CO laser for absolute frequency measurements near 60 Thz (5 [mu]m) | p. 460 |
| Frequency mixing to the 4th order in metal-insulator-metal diodes at 193 Thz, 1.55 [mu]m | p. 465 |
| Frequency synthesis and metrology at 10[superscript -17] and beyond | p. 468 |
| A method for the absolute measurement of the 445 THz clock frequency of a single, cooled Sr ion and of the 474 Thz HeNe/I[subscript 2] laser frequency | p. 471 |
| A 10 ps event timer for precise time transfer in space | p. 475 |
| 30 THz up-conversion of an AlGaAs diode laser using an AgGaS[subscript 2] crystal: Bridging several THz frequency gap in the near-infrared | p. 478 |
| Reducing the 1/f am and pm noise in electronics for precision frequency metrology | p. 480 |
| An atom interferometer based on Bragg scattering from standing light waves | p. 485 |
| Deposition of aluminum grating using light forces | p. 488 |
| Population- and coherence-induced gain and self-oscillations in alkali vapor | p. 490 |
| Spontaneous coherence of atomic states within a metallic slit | p. 493 |
| Atom interferometry in a static electric field | p. 495 |
| Temperature of cesium atoms in gray optical molasses | p. 499 |
| High-magnetic-field corrections to cesium hyperfine structure | p. 503 |
| Stability measurements of 637 nm extended cavity diode lasers stabilized to Doppler-free iodine spectra | p. 505 |
| Proposed infra-red to visible frequency chain at NPL | p. 507 |
| Observation of fluorescence from cold trapped Sr ions in a near-zero magnetic field and 674 nm probe laser development | p. 509 |
| An all solid-state Hg[superscript +] optical frequency standard | p. 511 |
| Mutual phase instabilities between semiconductor lasers injection-locked to a common master laser | p. 514 |
| Results of absolute frequency measurements of He-Ne/CH[subscript 4] laser during ten years | p. 517 |
| Hydrogen maser frequency standard for scientific experiments in space | p. 522 |
| The role of scientists: A societal issue or about being excluded | p. 527 |
| List of Participants | p. 543 |
| Index of Contributors | p. 547 |
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