Advances toward fieldable atom interferometers

FA Narducci, AT Black, JH Burke - Advances in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We review the field of atom interferometer inertial sensors. We begin by reviewing the path
integral formulation of atom interferometers and then specialize the treatment to light-pulse …

Pathfinder experiments with atom interferometry in the Cold Atom Lab onboard the International Space Station

JR Williams, CA Sackett, H Ahlers, DC Aveline… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deployment of ultracold atom interferometers (AI) into space will capitalize on quantum
advantages and the extended freefall of persistent microgravity to provide high-precision …

Tracking the vector acceleration with a hybrid quantum accelerometer triad

S Templier, P Cheiney, Q d'Armagnac de Castanet… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Robust and accurate acceleration tracking remains a challenge in many fields. For
geophysics and economic geology, precise gravity mapping requires onboard sensors …

A decade of advancement of quantum sensing and metrology in India using cold atoms and ions

P Dutta, SS Maurya, K Patel, K Biswas… - Journal of the Indian …, 2023 - Springer
Ultracold atoms and ions provide novel test-beds for quantum sensing and metrology.
Technological advancement towards the construction of ultrastable and narrow linewidth …

Technology roadmap for cold-atoms based quantum inertial sensor in space

S Abend, B Allard, AS Arnold, T Ban, L Barry… - AVS Quantum …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recent developments in quantum technology have resulted in a new generation of sensors
for measuring inertial quantities, such as acceleration and rotation. These sensors can …

Interferometry of atomic matter waves in the cold atom lab onboard the international space station

JR Williams, CA Sackett, H Ahlers, DC Aveline… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ultracold atomic gases hold unique promise for space science by capitalizing on quantum
advantages and extended freefall, afforded in a microgravity environment, to enable next …

Atom strapdown: Toward integrated quantum inertial navigation systems

B Tennstedt, A Rajagopalan, NB Weddig… - … : Journal of the Institute …, 2023 - navi.ion.org
We present an alternative technique for estimating the response of a cold atom
interferometer (CAI). Using data from a conventional inertial measurement unit (IMU) and …

All-optical matter-wave lens using time-averaged potentials

H Albers, R Corgier, A Herbst, A Rajagopalan… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The precision of matter-wave sensors benefits from interrogating large-particle-number
atomic ensembles at high cycle rates. Quantum-degenerate gases with their low effective …

Multi-loop atomic Sagnac interferometry

C Schubert, S Abend, M Gersemann, M Gebbe… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The sensitivity of light and matter-wave interferometers to rotations is based on the Sagnac
effect and increases with the area enclosed by the interferometer. In the case of light, the …

Integration of atom interferometers and inertial measurement units to improve navigation performance

B Tennstedt, S Schön - 2021 28th Saint Petersburg …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores a way of combining conventional inertial sensors with cold atom
interferometers (CAI) in order to reduce the drift of the navigation solutions in velocity and …