Researchers have shown, for the first time, that transmission of ultrastable optical signals from optical clocks across tens ...

“The Optical Quantum Clock uses an ytterbium ion as its reference and our new system builds closely on our previous ...

By comparing optical clocks in six different countries, researchers have taken a major step toward establishing a new global ...

For this purpose, the new ion crystal clock was compared to other optical clocks and achieved a new accuracy record. The results of the measurement campaign have been published in Physical Review ...

Optical clocks are incredibly precise, but they are also highly complex. There are just around 100 of them in existence worldwide, largely because they are difficult to build, ...

Optical clocks are now about 100 times more accurate than the best cesium clocks and can measure time so accurately that they would lose or gain less than one second over billions of years.

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Optical lattice clocks operate using the same three principles as conventional clocks. Yet in this type of clock, the oscillator, counter and frequency reference take a very different form.

Optical clocks can reach accuracies at the level of 10-18 , “which is a number so accurate that if the clock started running at the big bang, by now it will have lost 1 second”, says Alexandra ...

The PTB team compared their new clock to two other optical clocks—one based on strontium atoms and the other on ytterbium ions. These comparisons had relative uncertainties of 4.2 × 10⁻¹⁷ ...

Optical clocks are now about 100 times more accurate than the best cesium clocks and can measure time so accurately that they would lose or gain less than one second over billions of years.

The high level of accuracy has now also been demonstrated in a new type of clock that has the potential to measure time and frequency 1000 times more accurately than the caesium clocks that currently ...