Call For Papers

Materials, Resonators, Sensors, Transducers, and Photonics

Now brings together the micro-engineering of MEMS and integrated photonics in time and frequency applications.

List of topics:

• Micro/macro-fabrication technology for resonators and filters

• Fundamental properties of materials

• Theory, design, and performance of resonators and filters, including BAW, FBAR, MEMS, NEMS, SAW, and others

• BAW, SAW, FBAR, and MEMS sensors, sensor instrumentation and transducers

• Resonant chemical and physical sensors

• Vibratory gyroscopes & magnetometers

• Integrated photonics for time and frequency applications, e.g. meta-surfaces, filters, gratings and polarization optics

• Reconfigurable frequency control circuits, e.g. arrays and channelizers

Oscillators, Synthesizers, Signals & Noise and their Instrumentation

Now welcomes frequency combs among all sources of low-noise reference frequencies and their systematic study.

List of topics:

• ALL oscillators: RF, microwave and optical, including:
  MEMS oscillators (SAW, FBAR, HBAR,etc),
  quartz-crystal oscillators (XOs),
  opto-acoustic oscillators,
  CSOs, OEOs, and DRO-based oscillators,
  optical frequency references, cavity-stabilized lasers, multi-resonator oscillators

• Frequency combs and frequency synthesizers:
  RF, microwave, optical, and related circuitry
  Microwave photonics

• Digital systems: timing error, noise, applications

• Time, phase and frequency measurements:
    signal analysis and characterization
    phase noise analyzers, phase and frequency meters, counter

Deployable Quantum Clocks & Sensors

Now includes all precision clocks designed to work in the field or in space. Sensors that employ the same techniques are invited, too.

List of topics:

• Vapor-cell devices:
  microwave atomic clocks
  optical references, stabilized lasers, and clocks
  quantum sensors and instruments such as magnetometers, Rydberg atom sensors and gyroscopes
  technologies for quantum clocks & sensors

• Compact microwave ion clocks and beam clocks

• Deployable/Transportable ion/lattice optical clocks or atomic interferometers
  their use, in e.g. geodesy or space applications

Laboratory Quantum Clocks & Sensors, and Fundamental Physics

Now reunited: Clocks and measurements of universal properties to ultimate accuracy with both optical and radiofrequency signals.

List of topics:

• Laboratory-based optical clocks, including active optical clocks

• Hydrogen masers, atomic fountains, and laboratory-based atomic interferometers

• Fundamental Physics tests with Clocks on Earth and in Space

Timekeeping, Time and Frequency transfer, and the Time and Frequency of PNT

Timekeeping, Time and Frequency Transfer, and the time and frequency of PNT

List of topics:

•  TAI, Timescales and associated Algorithms

•  PNT, GNSS and Time-related Applications

• Telecom Network Synchronization 

• Time and Frequency transfer 

• Frequency and Time Distribution and Calibration Services