Characterization and limits of a cold-atom Sagnac interferometer

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Gauguet, A ^a,b   Canuel, B ^a,c   Leveque T ^a   Chaibi, W ^a,d   Landragin, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY EGO   (Italy)

^d Boulevard de LObservatoire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM INTERFEROMETRY; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; LONG-TERM SENSITIVITY; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; SCALE FACTOR; SHORT TERM; TECHNICAL LIMITS; ULTRASENSITIVE;

GYROSCOPES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ATOMS;

EID: 71449119743     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.063604     Document Type: Article

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