Time and Frequency standards
The steadiness of atomic physics for measuring time
INRIM works out fundamental scientific research in the field of atomic clocks. Among the microwave standards, INRIM places its activity at the highest level in terms of accuracy, contributing to the development of optical standards, as well, that represent the most promising technology in the next future of frequency metrology.
INRIM cooperates with the most important European metrology institutes to the development of a fiber optics network aimed to disseminate a time and frequency reference with an accuracy largely improved with respect to the present satellite methods.
Besides, it molds and then provides the national time standard, that represent the Italian legal reference for time. It is held in agreement with the Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) and INRIM contributes to the International Atomic Time (TAI) that is formed at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) in Paris.
Laboratories
projects in progress
GSA SPACEOPAL "Galileo service operator- Time Service Provider" Contatto: Patrizia Tavella, p.tavella@inrim.it
Horizon 2020 "Quantum sensors - from the lab to the field" - Contatto: Davide Calonico, d.calonico@inrim.it
Horizon 2020 "CLOck NETwork Services: Strategy and innovation for clock services over optical-fibre networks" Contatto: Davide Calonico, d.calonico@inrim.it
Horizon 2020 ERC "An ultracold gas plus one ion: advancing Quantum Simulations of in- and out-of-equilibrium many-body physics" Contatto: Carlo Sias, c.sias@inrim.it
EMPIR "Optical frequency transfer - a European network" Cecilia Clivati,c.clivati@inrim.it
EMPIR "Optical clocks with 1 × 10-18 uncertainty" Marco Pizzocaro, m.pizzocaro@inrim.it
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