IEAust ITEE Society and IEEE LEOS Evening Lecture:

Moore's Law for Clocks

Abstract:
Moore's Law has correctly predicted the pace of development of integrated circuits and has been widely used as a symbol for the rapid advance of electronic technology, particularly associated with computers. For more than forty years since Moore's prediction, the density of transistors and resistors in integrated circuits has doubled about every eighteen months. Another technology which has been a vital part of economic and scientific progress is that of clocks and timekeeping. Since Galileo's invention of the pendulum as a timekeeper in the late 16th century there has been steady progress in the accuracy of clocks. In this talk I draw attention to some revealing features of this development by analogy to Moore's Law.

Presenter(s):
Peter Farrell received the Ph.D. degree in atomic physics and laser spectroscopy from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, in 1992. His interest in optical fiber communications systems stems from his postdoctoral employment at Telstra Research Laboratories (TRL), Clayton, Victoria, Australia, where he worked on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. He was an Optical Group Leader at Altamar Networks and an Associate Professor at Victoria University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include optical fiber sensors, spectroscopy of rare earth doped glasses and fibers, and atomic spectroscopy.

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