The symposium is intended to serve as an international discussion forum on precision frequency standards throughout the electromagnetic spectrum and associated metrology. It focuses on the fundamental scientific aspects of the latest ideas, results and applications in relation to these frequency standards. Seven years after the last symposium very significant progress has occurred in various associated fields. Among these are optical atomic clocks with fractional uncertainties in the 10-18 regime, with applications for answering fundamental questions like possible variations of fundamental constants, the emerging field of relativistic geodesy and a new definition of the second.
The following EMRP projects will be presenting at the symposium:
- Compact and high-performing microwave clocks for industrial applications (IND55 Mclocks) will make use of recent advances in, for example, laser technology and techniques to prepare and detect atoms to develop a number of different types of vapour cell clocks.
- High-accuracy optical clocks with trapped ions (SIB04 Ion Clock) will evaluate the performance of optical clocks as well as to provide a set of absolute frequency measurements and a set of optical frequency ratio measurements, to be used as input to a redefinition of the second
