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Credit: Craig Fritz, Sandia National Laboratories

Dan Thrasher looks to his computer monitor while setting up an optical table at Sandia National Laboratories, where he is testing lasers in combination with barium ions to reduce drift in miniature atomic clocks, making them more accurate.

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Credit: Craig Fritz, Sandia National Laboratories

A miniature laser package for housing multiple 455 nanometer VCSELs, left, and a 3 cubic centimeter vacuum package for trapping and interrogating ions, right, are two critical components required for a buffer-gas-cooled microwave ion clock at Sandia National Laboratories.

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