Detecting inertial effects with airborne matter-wave interferometry

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Geiger, R ^a,b   Menoret V ^a,b,c   Stern, G ^d   Zahzam, N ^a   Cheinet, P ^a   Battelier, B ^a,c   Villing, A ^a   Moron, F ^a   Lours, M ^c   Bidel, Y ^d   Bresson, A ^d   Landragin, A ^c   Bouyer, P ^a,e  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ONERA   (France)

^e Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROGRAVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 80053420811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1479     Document Type: Article

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