FEMTO - FEmtosecond Measurement Technology Options

Femto将在英国的五年计划中发挥关键作用，该计划旨在将非凡的量子物理新概念从研究实验室带到应用中。Chronos技术公司、TMD技术公司和巴斯大学的电子工程和物理系已经联手制造这些系统的关键部件。他们计划开发创新的微波下转换方法、物理封装技术和飞秒精度的时间测量。这些技术对于提供基于革命性量子物理概念的具有非凡精度的新一代时钟至关重要。Femto将与伯明翰大学和斯特拉斯克莱德大学的EPSRC量子中心合作生产一个演示器。这将是一项将原型转化为世界领先产品的计划的基础。这些新的时间和频率量子物理来源将具有以前无法达到的精度。它们将让英国为陆地、海洋、空中和太空提供精确的导航，以及包括重力望远镜在内的全新应用。

FEMTO will play a key role in the UK’s 5 year programme to bring the remarkable new concepts of quantum physics out of research labs and into applications. Chronos Technology, TMD Technologies and the University of Bath’s Electronics Engineering and Physics Departments have teamed up to create key components of these systems. They plan to develop innovative microwave down-conversion methods, physics package encapsulation techniques and time measurements of femtosecond precision. These technologies are essential to delivering a new generation of clocks of remarkable accuracy, based on revolutionary quantum physics concepts. FEMTO will collaborate with the EPSRC Quantum Hub at Birmingham and Strathclyde Universities to produce a demonstrator. This will be the foundation for a programme that will turn prototypes into world-leading products. These new quantum physics sources of time and frequency will have an accuracy previously unachievable. They will let the UK deliver precise navigation for land, sea, air and space plus wholly new applications including a gravity telescope.