Primary Compact Cesium Clock (PC3)
| Responsable du projet | Gaetano Mileti |
| Résumé |
Primary Cesium beam Clocks are at the heart of many precise timing
or synchronization applications, e.g. in telecommunication networks
or for the generation of national or system timescales (e.g. GPS,
Galileo). The current industrial products available on the market
are relatively bulky instruments with high profile (3U, volume
about 30 liters). In this project we investigate on the
possibilities to strongly reduce the size of the Cesium clock’s
physics package, by developing a new design of the Cesium tube
which combines the Cesium atomic beam, surrounding vacuum vessel
and a compact microwave cavity. The envisaged compact Cesium clock
is expected to open new application possibilities where accuracy or
primary clock stability performances are required from a highly
compact clock. |
| Mots-clés |
horloges atomiques, césium |
| Type de projet | Recherche appliquée |
| Domaine de recherche | métrologie temps-fréquence |
| Source de financement | Innosuisse - Agence suisse pour l'encouragement de l'innovation |
| Etat | Terminé |
| Début de projet | 1-8-2017 |
| Fin du projet | 29-2-2020 |
| Budget alloué | CHF 594'312.00 |
| Autre information |
U.02782 |
| Contact | Patricia Desmeules |