Long-Term Stability of an Area-Reversible Atom-Interferometer Sagnac Gyroscope
Quantum Physics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We report on a study of the long-term stability and absolute accuracy of an atom interferometer gyroscope. This study included the implementation of an electro-optical technique to reverse the vector area of the interferometer for reduced systematics and a careful study of systematic phase shifts. Our data strongly suggests that drifts less than 96 deg/hr are possible after empirically removing shifts due to measured changes in temperature, laser intensity, and several other experimental parameters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0510215,
title = {Long-Term Stability of an Area-Reversible Atom-Interferometer Sagnac Gyroscope},
author = {D. S. Durfee and Y. K. Shaham and M. A. Kasevich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0510215},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL