Operating an atom interferometer beyond its linear range

Metrologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-94

  Merlet, S ^a   Le Gouet J ^a   Bodart, Q ^a   Clairon, A ^a   Landragin, A ^a   Pereira Dos Santos, F ^a   Rouchon, P ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM INTERFEROMETERS; EFFICIENT SAMPLINGS; EXTERNAL VIBRATIONS; GRAVITY MEASUREMENTS; GROUND VIBRATIONS; HIGH ACCELERATIONS; HIGH REPETITION RATES; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; INERTIAL SENSORS; LARGE VIBRATIONS; LINEAR RANGES; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW NOISE; LOW VIBRATIONS; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; NON-LINEAR; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; SEISMIC VIBRATIONS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VIBRATION ISOLATIONS;

ATOMS; EARTHQUAKES; GRAVIMETERS; INTERFEROMETERS; SEISMOGRAPHS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 65249105495     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/46/1/011     Document Type: Article

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