Ilia,
On 05/05/2016 06:55 AM, Ilia Platone wrote:
Is it possible to use the photon flux of a laser as clock source using a
sensor in photon-counting mode?
Or the photon rate will be chaotic and unstable (as I think but wanted
to know)?
There will be noise. Lots of it.
Feel free to measure it thought, if you have the equipment.
There is way better ways to use optical signals in clock contexts, the
new optical clocks rival conventional microwave standards and has
stabilities down towards 1E-18 and promises to go below. So good in
fact, that work has begun to see if a re-definition of the SI second
should be done in terms of optical clocks.
Cheers,
Magnus
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