Sarah Stevenson - Time Flies: Sending Really Precise Time Signals Through the Air with Pulses of Light (9/22/20)

 Time Flies:

 Sending Really Precise Time Signals Through the Air with Pulses of Light

One of Boulder’s claims to fame is having some of the world’s most precise clocks. But as the clocks developed by researchers at CU and NIST get more and more precise, we also need more and more precise techniques for sending their time signals to other people. In this talk I’ll discuss a technique for distributing extremely precise time signals over open space and how I got my favorite-ever job description, “I shoot lasers off the roof of a government laboratory.”

 Sarah Stevenson