Amplitude-modulated mirror pulses for improved cold-atom gravimetry

Y Wang, J Cheng, Y Liu, T Lin - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Cold-atom gravimetry is susceptible to environmental factors and noise resulting from the
expansion of the atom cloud, thereby impacting the quality of gravity signals. An amplitude …

High-efficiency three-port beam splitter under normal incidence

X Li, M Xu, J Liao, X Yang, C Zhou, W Jia… - Journal of the Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A fused-silica three-port grating under TE-polarized normal incidence is designed and
manufactured with improved diffraction efficiency (DE) and bandwidth. A physical …

Impact of the π-pulse shape on the contrast of thermal Atom Interferometers

C López-Monjaraz, HP Vega, K Jiménez-García… - Physica …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The key role of π-and π/2-pulses in atom interferometry has been widely recognized as their
efficiency affect the overall performance of atomic interferometers. The inefficiencies are …

Coherent coupling of momentum states: selectivity and phase control

C Leprince, V Gondret, C Lamirault, R Dias… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We demonstrate the effect of pulse shaping in momentum selective atomic Bragg diffraction.
We compare temporal square pulses, which produce sidelobes in momentum space, with …

Error and performance analysis of cold-atom inertial sensors for navigation

N Dedes - 2024 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Cold-atom inertial (CAI) sensors based on light-pulse atom interferometry show much
promise for the next generation of navigation systems thanks to their low scale-factor and …