Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …

Atomic clocks for geodesy

TE Mehlstäubler, G Grosche, C Lisdat… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review experimental progress on optical atomic clocks and frequency transfer, and
consider the prospects of using these technologies for geodetic measurements. Today …

Optical two-way time and frequency transfer over free space

FR Giorgetta, WC Swann, LC Sinclair, E Baumann… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The transfer of high-quality time–frequency signals between remote locations underpins
many applications, including precision navigation and timing, clock-based geodesy, long …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental realization of an optical second with strontium lattice clocks

R Le Targat, L Lorini, Y Le Coq, M Zawada… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Progress in realizing the SI second had multiple technological impacts and enabled further
constraint of theoretical models in fundamental physics. Caesium microwave fountains …

[HTML][HTML] Point-to-point stabilized optical frequency transfer with active optics

BP Dix-Matthews, SW Schediwy, DR Gozzard… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Timescale comparison between optical atomic clocks over ground-to-space and terrestrial
free-space laser links will have enormous benefits for fundamental and applied sciences …

Improving cold-atom sensors with quantum entanglement: Prospects and challenges

SS Szigeti, O Hosten, SA Haine - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum entanglement has been generated and verified in cold-atom experiments and
used to make atom-interferometric measurements below the shot-noise limit. However …

Applied general relativity

MH Soffel, WB Han - Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer Nature …, 2019 - Springer
At present, there is a vast number of textbooks on Einstein's theory of gravity (general
relativity, GR) that are available for different kinds of readers and at different levels of …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of quantum synchronization based on second-order quantum coherence of entangled photons

R Quan, Y Zhai, M Wang, F Hou, S Wang, X Xiang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Based on the second-order quantum interference between frequency entangled photons
that are generated by parametric down conversion, a quantum strategic algorithm for …

Coherent optical-fiber link across Italy and France

C Clivati, M Pizzocaro, EK Bertacco, S Condio… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The dissemination of atomic clocks with fiber-based techniques finds application in the fields
of metrology, fundamental physics, navigation, and spectroscopy but is a challenge in terms …

Comparing Optical Oscillators across the Air to Milliradians in Phase and in Frequency

LC Sinclair, H Bergeron, WC Swann, E Baumann… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate carrier-phase optical two-way time-frequency transfer (carrier-phase
OTWTFT) through the two-way exchange of frequency comb pulses. Carrier-phase OTWTFT …