Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Laser source for a cold-atom inertial sensor
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Application No.: US15778607Application Date: 2016-11-07
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Publication No.: US10436811B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Matthieu Dupont-Nivet , Sylvain Schwartz , Arnaud Brignon , Jérôme Bourderionnet
- Applicant: THALES
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1502484 20151127
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/076837 WO 20161107
- International Announcement: WO2017/089106 WO 20170601
- Main IPC: G01C19/58
- IPC: G01C19/58 ; G01C19/60 ; G01C19/62 ; G01C19/64 ; G01P15/093 ; G01P15/08 ; H01S3/13 ; H01S5/02 ; H01S5/026 ; H01S5/068 ; H01S5/0687 ; H01S5/12 ; H01S5/40 ; H01S5/50 ; H01S3/10 ; H01S3/00

Abstract:
A laser-source assembly that is configured to illuminate a vacuum chamber containing atoms in the gaseous state so as to implement a cold-atom inertial sensor, the atoms having at least two fundamental levels that are separated by a fundamental frequency difference comprised between 1 and a few gigahertz, the assembly comprises: a master laser that emits a beam having a master frequency; a first control loop that is configured to stabilize the master frequency of the master laser on a frequency corresponding to half a set frequency of an atomic transition between a fundamental level and an excited level of the atoms; a slave laser that has a slave frequency; and a second control loop that is configured to stabilize the slave frequency of the slave laser with respect to the master frequency, the slave frequency being offset with respect to the master frequency successively, over time, by a first preset offset value, a second preset offset value, and a third preset offset value, the offset values being comprised in an interval equal to half the fundamental frequency difference plus or minus a few hundred MHz.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180356441A1 LASER SOURCE FOR A COLD-ATOM INERTIAL SENSOR Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
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