Final Presentation NAVISP EL2-225 "OPTiK: Optical Precision Time Keeping"
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Optical clocks are at the core of alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (alt-PNT) solutions that do not depend on GNSS. When fully realised, alt-PNT will increase the resilience of Critical National Infrastructures and provide many sectors of the economy with increased commercial returns. The OPTiK project has increased the commercial appeal of Infleqtion UK's optical atomic frequency reference, Tiqker, by providing syntonisation and synchronisation features which provide traceability and dissemination through integration with White Rabbit. This additional capability transitions Tiqker from an optical frequency reference to a stratum 1 clock, providing next generation timing performance to commercial markets. The presentation will detail the development, validation and resilience demonstration of this new version of Tiqker.