TOPTICA introduces TOPTICLOCK: World's First Commercial Optical Quantum Clock Using a Single Trapped Yb⁺ Ion

At this year’s LASER World of PHOTONICS, TOPTICA has introduced to the market the first commercially available optical quantum clock based on a single laser-cooled, trapped Yb⁺ ion. 

The TOPTICLOCK system was now delivered to a first customer in September 2025 and set into operation within a few days. With its relative stability and accuracy on the order of 10-17, TOPTICLOCK sets a new benchmark for commercial atomic clocks and frequency standards with applications in time scales and time services, network synchronization, and as a ground reference for satellite navigation. Such performance in an industrial form factor marks an important milestone towards redefinition of the SI-second based on optical transitions.

Infleqtion and Thorlabs Partner to Accelerate Innovation in Quantum Applications

Quantum technology (QT) is transforming industries from healthcare to communications, but its advancement depends on the reliability of core components. Today, significant progress has been achieved on that journey. Infleqtion and Thorlabs are pleased to announcea new agreement to commercialise Infleqtion’s highly integrated optical fibre collimation package.

Infleqtion Leads the Future of Navigation Technology with Quantum Navigation Industry Day

LONDON – Infleqtion UK is delighted to announce the successful completion of the first phase of its Quantum Enhanced Inertial Navigation Systems (Q-NAV) project awarded by Innovate UK, culminating in its Quantum Navigation Industry Day on 27 June.

AA Opto-Electronic: AO devices in Quantum technologies

The Nobel prize in Physics 2022 was awarded for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities. This has lead to major revolutions in quantum science, giving a leap in research in computing and telecommunication area. In the Nobel prize winning experiment (see figure above), Acousto-Optics (AO) played a major role.