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Optical lattice clock

Recorded year2005

Hidetoshi Katori's clock traps thousands of strontium atoms in laser light and ticks at optical frequencies, later beating caesium a hundredfold.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.