Quantx Cryogenic Clock to Join Jindalee
5 Oct 22
South Australian defence technology firm QuantX Labs, has announced it has reached a major milestone in the development of its flagship technology, the Sapphire Cryogenic Clock.
Following nearly two years of work upgrades and improvements, the technology – known as Cryoclock for short – has recently passed through a full acceptance testing and is ready for inclusion into the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN).
QuantX will now work with BAE Systems Australia on an approach that will see the Cryoclock deployed into the JORN system supporting significantly improved detection with greatly increased sensitivity.
The Sapphire Cryogenic Clock has been developed over more than 30 years and shows a frequency instability that is equivalent to losing or gaining only one second every 40 million years. This is 100 times better than commercial atomic clocks over the relevant timescales.
Source: Land Forces 22