Creation of New Precision Optical and Microwave Technologies and their Application to Testing the Fundamental of Physics

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Clocks and oscillators are crucial for the highest precision scientific and industrial measurements and are the foundation of modern communications technology. Recent developments in laser-cooled optical clocks promise a wave of revolutionary changes to global navigation, timekeeping and precision measurement. Our group has already achieved world's-best performance in this field. To stay at the forefront of this wave we propose a broad-ranging program of research aimed at: - new clocks of 100 times higher performance than any existing clock, - development of extremely low noise photonic oscillators, - the application of these new technologies to test the foundations of Physics, including involvement in a space-based experiment.