{"id":207115,"date":"2025-02-24T05:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/microcomb-chips-show-potential-for-centimeter-level-gps-precision"},"modified":"2025-02-24T05:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:18:29","slug":"microcomb-chips-show-potential-for-centimeter-level-gps-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/microcomb-chips-show-potential-for-centimeter-level-gps-precision","title":{"rendered":"Microcomb chips show potential for centimeter-level GPS precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microcomb-chips-show-potential-for-centimeter-level-gps-precision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex to be widely used in society.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research team from Purdue University, U.S., and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a technology that, with the help of on-chip microcombs, could make ultra-precise optical atomic clock systems significantly smaller and more accessible\u2014with significant benefits for navigation, autonomous vehicles, and geo-data monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-025-01617-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex to be widely used in society. Now, a research team from Purdue University, U.S., and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a technology that, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}