How ultraprecise ‘nuclear clocks’ could transform timekeeping

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy ...
Elektroniknet

Ultra-Stable Clock Laser for Quantum Applications

Toptica Photonics is strengthening its position in ultra-stable laser technology with its Clock Laser System (CLS), designed to deliver reliable and ultra-low phase noise optical frequency references ...
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 ...
Hackaday

There’s Nothing Backwards About This Laser Cut Retrograde Clock

It’s clock time again on Hackaday, this time with a lovely laser-cut biretrograde clock by [PaulH175] over on Instructables. If you’ve never heard of a ‘biretrograde clock,’ well, we hadn’t either.
Morning Overview on MSN

Ytterbium optical clock design could sharpen tests of fundamental physics

A transportable ytterbium optical lattice clock has been commercially shipped, rapidly recommissioned, and tested against ...
Yahoo

World’s most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam

An NIST physicist holds the newly modified ion trap for the aluminum ion clock. By modifying the trap, the aluminum ion and its magnesium ion partner could 'tick' unperturbed. Optical atomic clocks ...
Quanta Magazine

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change

An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe. At 11:30 one night in May 2024, a graduate student, ...
Phys.org

Study finds more stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter

Phase noise of quantum-enhanced feedback oscillators. Spectra of the output phase quadrature for four types of quantum noise-limited oscillators. Red shows the Schawlow-Townes spectrum of an ...
Optics

LASER 2025: Toptica launches Optical Quantum Clock for quantum metrology

Established as a provider of high-end lasers and laser rack systems, Toptica has this week announced at LASER world of Photonics that is offering its first complete quantum technology solution: a ...

Stabilized laser components could shrink quantum computers from room- to chip-scale

Scientists in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California ...
Optics

First commercial optical quantum clock based on Yb+ is deployed

At this year’s LASER World of Photonics (2025), in Munich, Germany, Toptica Photonics introduced to the market what the Munich-based company describes as “the first commercially available optical ...