Underground and airborne matter-wave inertial sensors: towards fundamental tests of gravitation
BOUYER, Philippe
laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique
lp2n-02,lp2n-11
laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique
lp2n-02,lp2n-11
BOUYER, Philippe
laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique
lp2n-02,lp2n-11
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laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique
lp2n-02,lp2n-11
Language
en
Communication dans un congrès avec actes
This item was published in
The 41st Winter Colloquium on the PHYSICS of QUANTUM ELECTRONICS : PQE 2011, 2011-01-02, Snowbird.
English Abstract
We report here the first operation of an airborne quantum inertial sensor. We highlight their promising applications to inertial navigation and Earth observation. We also describe the improvement of the quantum sensor ...Read more >
We report here the first operation of an airborne quantum inertial sensor. We highlight their promising applications to inertial navigation and Earth observation. We also describe the improvement of the quantum sensor sensitivity in weightlessness, and discuss the possibility to conduct airborne or spaceborne tests of the Universality of Free Fall with quantum objects. We finally describe a matter-wave laser based interferometric gravitational antenna (MIGA). This infrastructure will allow for measuring with unprecedented resolution variations of the Earths gravity and of the strain of space-time allowing for enhancing the capabilities of existing and future gravitational wave detectors.Read less <
English Keywords
atom interometry
Origin
Hal imported