Strontium Optical LAttice Clock (SOLACE)

锶光学晶格钟 (SOLACE)

• 批准号: 133976
• 金额: $ 50.83万
• 依托单位: M-SQUARED LASERS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: CR&D Bilateral
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=133976
• 关键词: Strontium; Optical; LAttice; Clock; SOLACE

Precision timing plays a vital role in the economy, from enabling satellite-free navigation to protecting the integrity of electronic financial trading. The current state-of-the-art commercial timing systems use microwave frequency atomic clocks, but commercial optical frequency atomic clocks are expected to be available within the next 4 years, promising a 100x improvement or better over current technology. This will enable submarine navigation to improve from 2km accuracy over a 24hr period to 100m accuracy over several months. It will also prevent millions of £'s in losses due to timing errors in the financial sector.In this project, M Squared Lasers, together with the University of Birmingham, will design and build the core components of a commercial atomic clock based on the strontium atom. As forerunners in this field of new quantum technology development, we will develop compact and modular subsystems laser sources, optics assemblies and robust electronics packages that will accelerate commercialisation of this new state-of-the-art precision timing system.

精确时机在经济中起着至关重要的作用，从实现无卫星导航到保护电子金融交易的完整性。当前最新的商业时机系统使用微波频率原子时钟，但预计商业光学频率原子钟将在未来4年内可用，保证比当前技术有100倍或更好的改善。这将使潜艇导航从24小时内的2公里精度提高到几个月的精度。由于金融部门的定时错误，这也将防止数百万英镑的损失。在该项目中，M平方激光器与伯明翰大学一起设计和建立基于跨原子的商业原子时钟的核心组成部分。作为这一新量子技术开发领域的森林人，我们将开发紧凑和模块化子系统激光源，光学组件和强大的电子套件，这些套件将加速这种新的最先进的精确时序系统的商业化。