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Frontiers in Optics

Slow Light Enhanced Accelerometry

Ruoxi Zhu, Zifan Zhou, Jason Bonacum, M. S. Shahriar

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show how to realize a slow-light enhanced accelerometer using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. A proof-of-principle experiment carried out with Rb vapor is found to produce results in close agreement with the theoretical model.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2022.jtu4b.8

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