Location: Zoom
Speaker: John E. Kitching, NIST
Bio: John Kitching received his PhD in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and is the founder and Leader of the Atomic Devices and Instrumentation Group in NIST-Boulder’s Time and Frequency Division. He and his group pioneered the development of chip-scale atomic clocks in the early 2000’s and he continues to develop and investigate new compact, low-power precision instruments.
Abstract: There is currently a strong movement worldwide toward portable, battery operated wirelessly connected devices such as GPS receivers, cellular telephones and laptop computers and tablets. A new generation of miniature, low-power, low-cost precision instruments based on silicon micromachining and precision atomic spectroscopy is being developed at NIST for use in such portable technologies. This talk will describe the design, fabrication and performance of these instruments, as well as touch on several applications to which they are well-suited.