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Dr. John Burke

Dr. John Burke

Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)

Program Manager

Dr. John Burke joined DARPA as a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in August 2017. His research interests include the development of high-stability, low-noise sensors and frequency synthesis to enable new positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) and remote detection capabilities. He is particularly interested in the integration of modern atomic physics techniques (e.g. laser cooling and trapping) with photonic circuits and atom chips to reduce the complexity, cost, and size of these techniques while increasing their robustness and reliability for use outside of a laboratory environment.

Dr. Burke is currently on detail from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico where he was a Senior Research Physicist. Dr. Burke led a research team developing atomic clocks, optical time transfer, and cold atom measurement techniques for use in space applications such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). The AFRL optical atomic clock uses a frequency comb, stable laser, and atomic vapor cell to generate a frequency tone that enables GPS satellite clocks to be accurate to nanosecond levels for long periods of time. Dr. Burke also led the Air Force’s contribution to the NASA Cold Atom Laboratory for the International Space Station (ISS), and optical time transfer development under two defense programs. Dr. Burke won the AFRL Early Career Award and Senior Leadership Award.

Dr. Burke received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Centre College and his Doctorate of Philosophy degree in physics from the University of Virginia. His thesis work was on atom interferometry with guided matter waves sourced from a Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC), which won the University of Virginia Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Science and Engineering.

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    Atomic Clock with Enhanced Stability (ACES)
    Precise timing is essential across DoD systems, including communications, navigation, electronic warfare, intelligence systems reconnaissance, and system-of-systems platform coordination, as well as in national infrastructure applications in commerce and banking, telecommunications, and power distribution. Improved clock performance throughout the timing network, particularly at point-of-use, would enable advanced collaborative capabilities and provide greater resilience to disruptions of timing synchronization networks, notably by reducing reliance on satellite-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) timing signals.
    Atomic Magnetometer for Biological Imaging In Earth’s Native Terrain (AMBIIENT)
    State-of-the-art magnetometers are used for diverse civilian and DoD applications, among them biomedical imaging, navigation, and detecting unexploded ordnance and underwater and underground anomalies. Commercially available magnetometers range from inexpensive Hall probes to highly sensitive fluxgate and atomic magnetometers to high-precision Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) and Spin Exchange Relaxation Free (SERF) magnetometers.
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