High-accuracy inertial measurements with cold-atom sensors

R Geiger, A Landragin, S Merlet… - AVS Quantum …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The research on cold-atom interferometers gathers a large community of about 50 groups
worldwide both in the academic and now in the industrial sectors. The interest in this sub …

[HTML][HTML] Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map

I Alonso, C Alpigiani, B Altschul, H Araújo… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
We summarise the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space
concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal …

Multiaxis atom interferometry with a single-diode laser and a pyramidal magneto-optical trap

X Wu, F Zi, J Dudley, RJ Bilotta, P Canoza, H Müller - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Atom interferometry has become one of the most powerful technologies for precision
measurements. To develop simple, precise, and versatile atom interferometers for inertial …

Airborne absolute gravimetry with a quantum sensor, comparison with classical technologies

Y Bidel, N Zahzam, A Bresson… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report an airborne gravity survey with an absolute gravimeter based on atom
interferometry and two relative gravimeters: a classical LaCoste&Romberg (L&R) and a …

Self-alignment of a large-area dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope using parameter-decoupled phase-seeking calibrations

ZW Yao, HH Chen, SB Lu, RB Li, ZX Lu, XL Chen… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We report a Mach-Zehnder-type dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope with an interrogation
arm of 40-cm length and the interference area up to 1.2 cm 2. The precise angular alignment …

Atom interferometry with thousand-fold increase in dynamic range

D Yankelev, C Avinadav, N Davidson… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The periodicity inherent to any interferometric signal entails a fundamental trade-off between
sensitivity and dynamic range of interferometry-based sensors. Here, we develop a …

Improving measurement performance via fusion of classical and quantum accelerometers

X Wang, A Kealy, C Gilliam, S Haine, J Close… - The Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
While quantum accelerometers sense with extremely low drift and low bias, their practical
sensing capabilities face at least two limitations compared with classical accelerometers: a …

Closed-loop dual-atom-interferometer inertial sensor with continuous cold atomic beams

ZX Meng, PQ Yan, SZ Wang, XJ Li, HB Xue… - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate a closed-loop light-pulse atom-interferometer inertial sensor that can
realize continuous decoupled measurements of acceleration and rotation rate. The sensor …

Cold atom inertial sensors for navigation applications

MJ Wright, L Anastassiou, C Mishra, JM Davies… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Quantum sensors based on atom interferometers can provide measurements of inertial
quantities with unprecedented accuracy and precision. It has been suggested that this sea …

Local phase shift due to interactions in an atom interferometer

Z Yao, C Solaro, C Carrez, P Cladé, S Guellati-Khelifa - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We study the phase shift induced by atomic interactions at the output of an atom
interferometer. Due to the mutual interaction between the two overlapping Bose-Einstein …