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Restoring Velocity Immunity via Dynamic Mirror Compensation in a Large-Area Dual-Atom-Interferometer Gyroscope

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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a dynamical mirror compensation scheme to restore velocity immunity in a large-area dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope. In an ideal Mach-Zehnder configuration, the phase shift is inherently immune to atomic velocity, but this property is broken by the Earth's rotation via the Coriolis effect. We overcome this by actively rotating the Raman mirrors during the pulse sequence to cancel the time-dependent angular offset. The implementation relies on a decouplable calibration-compensation chain to remove rotation-induced time-dependent terms. The scheme is validated on a dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope with an interference area of 21.1 cm^2. After compensation, the phase's dependence on atomic velocity is reduced 40-fold, and the velocity contribution to scale-factor stability is evaluated to be 0.13 ppm. The sensor achieves a rotation sensitivity of 1.3\times10^{-8} rad/s/Hz^{1/2} and a stability of 1.9\times10^{-10} rad/s at 4500 s integration, together with a common-mode noise rejection ratio of up to 459, demonstrated in a seismic event. This work removes a key obstacle to scale-factor stabilization in atom-interferometer gyroscopes and paves the way for their applications in inertial navigation and geophysics.

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

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@article{arxiv.2605.29929,
  title  = {Restoring Velocity Immunity via Dynamic Mirror Compensation in a Large-Area Dual-Atom-Interferometer Gyroscope},
  author = {Jie Gu and Yin-fei Mao and Zhan-Wei Yao and An-qing Zhang and Si-Bin Lu and Shao-kang Li and Min Jiang and Xiao-Li Chen and Min Ke and Xi Chen and Run-Bing Li and Jin Wang and Ming-Sheng Zhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29929},
  year   = {2026}
}