Effects of wave-front tilt and air density fluctuations in a sensitive atom interferometry gyroscope
Wen-Jie Xu, Ling Cheng, Jie Liu, Cheng Zhang, Ke Zhang, Yuan Cheng, Zhi Gao, Lu-Shuai Cao,
Xiao-Chun Duan, Min-Kang Zhou, and Zhong-Kun Hu
We present a matter wave gyroscope with a Sagnac area of 5.92 cm2, achieving a short-term sensitivity of 167 nrad/s/Hz1/2. The atom interferometry gyroscope is driven by a π/2 − π − π − π/2 Raman pulse sequence based on an atom fountain with a parabolic trajectory. The phase-locked laser beams for Raman transitions partly propagate outside of the vacuum chamber and expose to the air when passing through the two arms of the vacuum chamber. This configuration leads to the tilt of the laser’s wave-front and suffers the fluctuation of air density. The impacts on both the fringe contrast and long-term stability are experimentally investigated in detail, and effective schemes are developed to improve the performance of our atom gyroscope. The method presented here could be useful for developing large atom interferometry facilities with separated vacuum chambers.
期刊名： Optics Express
期/卷：Vol. 28, No. 8
页码：12189-12200
发表时间： 13 April 2020
DOI: 10.1364/OE.391780
