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Composite-Fringe Atom Interferometry for High-Dynamic-Range Sensing

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In this article, composite fringes are obtained from sets of measurements with slightly varying interrogation times, as in a moir\'e effect, and analyzed analytically the performance gain in this approach and the trade-offs it entails between sensitivity, dynamic range, and bandwidth.
Abstract
Atom interferometers offer excellent sensitivity to gravitational and inertial signals but have limited dynamic range. We introduce a scheme that improves this trade-off by a factor of 50 using composite fringes, obtained from sets of measurements with slightly varying interrogation times, as in a moir\'e effect. We analyze analytically the performance gain in this approach and the trade-offs it entails between sensitivity, dynamic range, and bandwidth, and we experimentally validate the analysis over a wide range of parameters. Combining composite-fringe measurements with a particle-filter estimation protocol, we demonstrate continuous tracking of a rapidly varying signal over a span 2 orders of magnitude larger than the dynamic range of a traditional atom interferometer.

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Self-alignment of a large-area dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope using parameter-decoupled phase-seeking calibrations

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The Unscented Particle Filter

TL;DR: This paper proposes a new particle filter based on sequential importance sampling that outperforms standard particle filtering and other nonlinear filtering methods very substantially and is in agreement with the theoretical convergence proof for the algorithm.
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Optics and interferometry with atoms and molecules

TL;DR: The development of wave optics for light brought many new insights into our understanding of physics, driven by fundamental experiments like the ones by Young, Fizeau, Michelson-Morley and others as mentioned in this paper.
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Atomic interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions

TL;DR: The mechanical effects of stimulated Raman transitions on atoms have been used to demonstrate a matter-wave interferometer with laser-cooled sodium atoms that has observed interference for wave packets that have been separated by as much as 2.4 mm.
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High-precision gravity measurements using atom interferometry

TL;DR: In this article, an atom interferometer that can measure g, the local acceleration due to gravity, with a resolution of Δg/g = 2 × 10−8 after a single 1.3 s measurement cycle was built.
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Precision Rotation Measurements with an Atom Interferometer Gyroscope

TL;DR: In this article, a Sagnac-effect atom interferometer gyroscope using stimulated Raman transitions was used to coherently manipulate atomic wave packets, measured the Earth's rotation rate and demonstrated a short-term sensitivity to rotations of $2.
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