3 papers
physics.atom-ph2025
100-ns-level timing holdover after 12 years for rubidium atomic fountains
Steven Peil, T. G. Akin, J. D Whalen
While atomic frequency standards are improving at a staggering pace, the timing community has relied on the same continuously running atomic clocks for decades: commercial cesium b…
physics.atom-ph2024
Progress on Optical Clock Technology for Operational Timescales
S. Peil, W. Tobias, J. Whalen +2
While optical clock technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, incorporating the technology into operational timescales has progressed more slowly. The highest accuracy frequ…
physics.atom-ph2024
Deployment of a Transportable Yb Optical Lattice Clock
Tobias Bothwell, Wesley Brand, Robert Fasano +16
We report on the first deployment of a ytterbium (Yb) transportable optical lattice clock (TOLC), commercially shipping the clock 3,000 km from Boulder, Colorado to Washington DC.…