[time-nuts] Re: Want to build your own optical clock?

[paul swed]

Skip it was interesting to take a look at what you sent. Sure looks like
some students are going to have fun with cold atoms.
In some of the earlier threads there was a discussion on failure modes and
the laser was most likely. This had me thinking about the old cesiums I
have.
Assuming they are on average 40 years old, then the current life of the
units are some 350,000 hours. Granted I don't run them 24 X 7.
But it at least sets a number to what we are used to at some level.
Not very scientific but a fun fact.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM Skip Withrow via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> Infleqtion will have a booth at Photonics West in San Francisco Jan. 27 -
> Feb. 1.
> They are working on all kinds of quantum physics stuff, but have two things
> of particular interest to time-nuts.
> 1. Tiqker - A Rb cold atom clock in a 3U rack mount package.  Pretty
> limited production at this point, but something to watch.  I think there is
> another company in CA working on a similar product.
>
> 2. desqtopMOT - geared towards educational institutions, but suitable for
> draining your bank account and free time. Explore, educate, and empower the
> workforce of tomorrow with the desqtopMOT cold atom platform — Infleqtion
> <https://www.infleqtion.com/desqtopmot>
>
> Regards,
> Skip Withrow
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