Analytical framework for dynamic light pulse atom interferometry at short interrogation times

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2418-2429

  Stoner, Richard ^a   Butts, David ^a,b   Kinast, Joseph ^a   Timmons, Brian ^a  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ATOMS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SENSORS;

ATOM INTERFEROMETER; ATOM INTERFEROMETRY; ATOM OPTICS; DETUNING EFFECT; DWELL TIME; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH-PRECISION; INERTIAL SENSING; LASER INDUCED; LIGHT PULSE; LOW RATES; MULTIPULSES; NONRESONANT; OPERATIONAL MODES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHASE EVOLUTIONS; PULSE DURATIONS; RAMAN LASERS; RAMAN PULSE; RAMAN RESONANCES; ROBUST SENSOR; STATE POPULATION; TIME INTERVAL; TIME VARYING;

LIGHT;

EID: 80053462320     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.002418     Document Type: Article

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