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Implementation of a Reference Interferometer for Nanodetection
Published on: April 26, 2014
Six-axis inertial sensor using cold-atom interferometry
B Canuel1, F Leduc, D Holleville
1LNE-SYRTE, CNRS UMR 8630, Observatoire de Paris, 61 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We have developed an atom interferometer providing a full inertial base. This device uses two counterpropagating cold-atom clouds that are launched in strongly curved parabolic trajectories. Three single Raman beam pairs, pulsed in time, are successively applied in three orthogonal directions leading to the measurement of the three axis of rotation and acceleration. In this purpose, we introduce a new atom gyroscope using a butterfly geometry. We discuss the present sensitivity and the possible improvements.
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