Optical clock technologies for global navigation satellite systems
Gohlke, Martin
Oswald, Markus
Wüst, Jan
Blomberg, Tim
Döringshoff, Klaus
Bawamia, Ahmad
Wicht, Andreas
Lezius, Matthias
Voss, Kai
Krutzik, Markus
Herrmann, Sven
Kovalchuk, Evgeny
Peters, Achim
Braxmaier, Claus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-021-01113-2
Persistent URL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11468
Persistent URL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11468
Schuldt, Thilo; Gohlke, Martin; Oswald, Markus; Wüst, Jan; Blomberg, Tim; Döringshoff, Klaus; Bawamia, Ahmad; Wicht, Andreas; Lezius, Matthias; Voss, Kai; Krutzik, Markus; Herrmann, Sven; Kovalchuk, Evgeny; Peters, Achim; Braxmaier, Claus, 2021: Optical clock technologies for global navigation satellite systems. In: GPS Solutions, Band 25, 3, DOI: 10.1007/s10291-021-01113-2.
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Future generations of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) can benefit from optical technologies. Especially optical clocks could back-up or replace the currently used microwave clocks, having the potential to improve GNSS position determination enabled by their lower frequency instabilities. Furthermore, optical clock technologies—in combination with optical inter-satellite links—enable new GNSS architectures, e.g., by synchronization of distant optical frequency references within the constellation using time and frequency transfer techniques. Optical frequency references based on Doppler-free spectroscopy of molecular iodine are seen as a promising candidate for a future GNSS optical clock. Compact and ruggedized setups have been developed, showing frequency instabilities at the 10–15 level for averaging times between 1 s and 10,000 s. We introduce optical clock technologies for applications in future GNSS and present the current status of our developments of iodine-based optical frequency references.