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High Sensitivity Gravity Measurement with Cold Atom Interferometry

Zhong-Kun Hu, Xiao‐Chun Duan, Min-Kang Zhou, Lele Chen

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report the work of exploring atom interferometry techniques to perform precision gravity measurements in our laboratory. The noise suppressions and related modulation experiments for the atom gravimeter will be presented in detail.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2014.sth4o.1

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