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 …

Rotation sensing with improved stability using point-source atom interferometry

C Avinadav, D Yankelev, M Shuker, O Firstenberg… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Point-source atom interferometry is a promising approach for implementing robust, high-
sensitivity, rotation sensors using cold atoms. However, its scale factor, ie, the ratio between …

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 …

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 …

Position fixing with cold atom gravity gradiometers

AM Phillips, MJ Wright, I Riou, S Maddox… - AVS Quantum …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This paper proposes a position fixing method for autonomous navigation using partial
gravity gradient solutions from cold atom interferometers. Cold atom quantum sensors can …

Composite-fringe atom interferometry for high-dynamic-range sensing

C Avinadav, D Yankelev, O Firstenberg, N Davidson - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
Atom interferometers offer excellent sensitivity to gravitational and inertial signals but have
limited dynamic range. We introduce a scheme that improves this trade-off by a factor of 50 …

The implementation of a compact cold atom interference gyroscope based on miniaturized quartz vacuum chamber

Y Zhao, D Li, J Niu, S Bao, K Zhang… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Cold Atom Interference Gyroscope (CAIG) offer substantial potential for rotation
measurement due to the high sensitivity and stability. The CAIG with a fountain configuration …

Emulating an atomic gyroscope with multiple accelerometers

N Shettell, R Dumke - AVS Quantum Science, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The main advantage of an atomic accelerometer when compared to a classical
accelerometer is negligible bias drift, allowing for stable long-term measurements, which …

Augmented inertial navigation using cold atom sensing

AM Phillips, MJ Wright, M Kiss-Toth… - Cold Atoms for …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Inertial sensing based on cold atom technologies has been proposed as a possible answer
to the limited accuracy of current inertial navigation systems. Cold atom technologies offer …