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World’s most accurate atomic clock uses 2-mile laser beam to track time precisely

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) U.S. has set a new world record for the most accurate aluminum ion-based optical atomic clock. This clock sets a new time-keeping benchmark, ...
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Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock

Researchers in the US and Germany have unveiled a theoretical blueprint for an atomic clock driven by a highly synchronized laser, where atoms work in concert rather than independently. Publishing ...
Phys.org

Compact vacuum ultraviolet laser may improve nanotechnology and power nuclear clocks

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...
Electronic Design

Vernier Optical Combs Plus Heterodyned Electronics Yield Atomic Clock

There are significantly different architectures for what are known as “atomic” clocks. Optically driven atomic clocks offer a new set of performance attributes. The optical atomic clocks use paired ...
Nanowerk

Researchers demonstrate integrated stabilized laser chips performing clock and quantum operations on a room temperature trapped ion qubit

Chip-scale laser controls trapped ions for quantum clocks and qubits, enabling portable, scalable systems with high fidelity for sensing, computing, and space use. (Nanowerk News) In an ongoing effort ...