Atomic sensors - A review

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1749-1758

  Kitching, John ^a   Knappe, Svenja ^b   Donley, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic spectroscopy; inertial sensor; magnetometry

Indexed keywords

ATOM INTERFEROMETER; ATOMIC MAGNETOMETERS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; HUMAN BRAIN; INERTIAL MOTIONS; INERTIAL SENSOR; MAGNETOMETRY; MODERN SCIENCE; MOVING PLATFORM; PRECISION NAVIGATION;

ATOMS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETOMETERS; SENSORS;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79960994392     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2157679     Document Type: Review

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