NIST says a chip-scale frequency comb can measure light the way a ruler measures length, and the laboratory posted that account on October 16, 2026.
Two lasers around a microresonator make an even comb of colors without the extra equipment a single-laser method needs. The NIST report describes work with the Joint Quantum Institute, a partnership of NIST and the University of Maryland. The use named on the page is optical timekeeping and navigation when GPS is unavailable or jammed, including military navigation and resource exploration. A wafer image credited to Gregory Moille of the Joint Quantum Institute and NIST shows more than 400 chips on one wafer, with up to 300 ring resonators on a chip.
The page does not cite a journal paper. That is a limitation of the public account: the laboratory has described the method and the intended use, and this report does not establish that the chips are already installed in phones or in field navigation gear. The media contact listed by NIST is Ron Cowen.
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