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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Rotation rate measurements with a large area cold atom interferometer

Arnaud Landragin, Matteo Altorio, Romain Gautier, Leonid A. Sidorenkov, Rémi Geiger

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a cold atom gyroscope based on the Sagnac effect for matter-wave with very large area of 11 cm2 with record sensitivity and preliminary study of the scaling factor.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2020.stu3f.4

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