TIMEKEEPER – Next-Gen Optical Timing Technology

TIMEKEEPER Research to Business project is aiming towards developing and pre-commercializing all-optical timing technology with ENZ meta surfaces. Accurate time interval measurements and synchronization between two events are highly desirable in different fields of science and technology, especially when operating data centers. Electronic-based timekeeping devices cannot precisely measure the time difference between two events precisely below two-digit picosecond scale. The revolution in timekeeping is to move from electronic timekeeping devices to all-optical timekeeping devices. This project is about pre-commercialization of a novel all-optical technology to measure the time interval at the femtosecond scale, limiting the use of expensive electronic components and minimizing drift. We will be prototyping with a novel, extremely high precision, low energy, all-optical timekeeping solution with epsilon near zero (ENZ) metamaterials. In future, this solution can also become a powerful toolbox for optical metamaterials technology platform, contributing to the creation of low-cost, accurate and all-optical devices across industries.
 

Business Finland: Research to Business funding