Large area light-pulse atom interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 4498-4501

  McGuirk, J M ^a   Snadden, M J ^a   Kasevich, M A ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; GRAVITATION; INTERFEROMETRY;

LIGHT-PULSE ATOM INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0034322199     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4498     Document Type: Article

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