In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional thermometer module based on the Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds. The thermometer integrates four modules on one Printed Circuit Board (PCB) including a laser module and a corresponding voltage regulator circuit, a microwave module, a focusing module, and an acquisition module, and it has a constructed area of 6.4
cm2. In the process of integrating equipment, we made a signal amplifier module to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Through the amplifier module, we realize a
∼25-fold increase in the fluorescence, and it successfully improved the SNR by
∼8.9-fold. Fixed Frequency Optical Detection of Magnetic Resonance (FF-ODMR) measures the relationship between temperature (T) and photoluminescence (PL) by scanning the temperature field at 2.84GHz. Which is the most direct display of the thermometer. We developed an algorithm for analyzing the thermometer sensitivity based on PL the SNR analysis. The thermometer temperature-field sensitivity of approximately
19nk/Hz1/2.
The temperature of atoms, coupled to several effects, plays an important role in high precision atom interferometry gravimeters. In this work, we present an ultra-cold 87Rb atom interferometry gravimeter, in which the atom source is produced by evaporative cooling in an all optical dipole trap to investigate the effects related to atom temperature. A condensate containing 4 × 104 atoms can be prepared within 3.2 s through an all-optical dipole trap composed of two reservoirs and a dimple. The fringe contrast of our atom interferometry gravimeter reaches up to 76(4)% due to the advantage of ultra-cold atom source even at a free evolution time of T=80 ms. A resolution of 6 μGal (1 μGal=1×10−8 m/s2) after 3000 s integration time with a sampling rate of 0.25 Hz is achieved in this atom gravimeter. The relationship between the fringe contrast and the atom temperature in the atom gravimeter is studied; in addition, the wavefront aberration effect in the atom gravimeter is also investigated by varying the temperature of atoms.
Abstract Large-scale atom interferometers promise unrivaled strain sensitivity to mid-band gravitational waves, and will probe a new parameter space in the search for ultra-light scalar dark matter. These proposals require gradiometry with kilometer-scale baselines, a momentum separation above 104ℏk between interferometer arms, and optical transitions to long-lived clock states to reach the target sensitivities. Prohibitively high optical power and wavefront flatness requirements have thus far limited the maximum achievable momentum splitting. Here we propose a scheme for optical cavity enhanced atom interferometry, using circulating, spatially resolved pulses, and intracavity frequency modulation to meet these requirements. We present parameters for the realization of 20 kW circulating pulses in a 1 km interferometer enabling 104ℏk splitting on the 698 nm clock transition in 87Sr. This scheme addresses the presently insurmountable laser power requirements and is feasible in the context of a kilometer-scale atom interferometer facility.