Coherent population trapping in a Raman atom interferometer
Atomic Physics
2016-06-29 v1
Abstract
We investigate the effect of coherent population trapping (CPT) in an atom inter-ferometer gravimeter based on the use of stimulated Raman transitions. We find that CPT leads to significant phase shifts, of order of a few mrad, which may compromise the accuracy of inertial measurements. We show that this effect is rejected by the k-reversal technique, which consists in averaging inertial measurements performed with two opposite orientations of the Raman wavevector k, provided that internal states at the input of the interferometer are kept identical for both configurations.
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@article{arxiv.1606.02843,
title = {Coherent population trapping in a Raman atom interferometer},
author = {Bing Cheng and Pierre Gillot and Sébastien Merlet and Franck Pereira dos Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02843},
year = {2016}
}