Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Femtosecond time synchronization of optical clocks off of a flying quadcopter

  • Hugo Bergeron,
  • Laura C. Sinclair,
  • William C. Swann,
  • Isaac Khader,
  • Kevin C. Cossel,
  • Michael Cermak,
  • Jean-Daniel Deschênes,
  • Nathan R. Newbury

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09768-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Optical clock networks have many applications from precision time keeping, sensing to fundamental physics. Here the authors demonstrate robust and free-space femtosecond time synchronization of optical clocks via a moving quadcopter.