NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), a sort of GPS system for space, relies on atomic clocks for extreme accuracy. Any modern navigation system must accurately time radio signals to triangulate a location. But the need for accuracy is even higher in space, where great distances can compound even tiny errors.
Advances made by Lute Maleki, former researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, and his JPL colleagues for space have now led to some of the world’s most refined lasers and oscillators for applications like communications, range finders for self-driving cars, and emerging fields like quantum computing.
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