Speaker
Andrei Derevianko
(University of Nevada, Reno)
Description
The FOCOS mission will perform precise time and frequency comparisons between a high-stability optical clock in an elliptical orbit and ground optical clocks via a high-performance free-space optical link. The high frequency stability of an orbiting clock allows an improved measurement of the gravitational redshift by a factor of 30,000, precise worldwide time transfer, and searches for dark matter and time variations of fundamental constants with a global network of clocks.
Authors
Andrei Derevianko
(University of Nevada, Reno)
Kurt Gibble
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Leo Hollberg
Dr
Nathan Newbury
(NIST)
Prof.
Marianna Safronova
(U. of Delaware)
Dr
Laura Sinclair
(NIST)
Dr
Nan Yu
(JPL, CalTech)
