Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Diverging waveguide atomic gyroscope
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Application No.: US14717782Application Date: 2015-05-20
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Publication No.: US09766071B2Publication Date: 2017-09-19
- Inventor: Robert Compton , Karl D. Nelson , Chad Fertig
- Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NJ Morris Plains
- Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
- Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Morris Plains
- Agency: Fogg & Powers LLC
- Main IPC: G01C19/72
- IPC: G01C19/72 ; G01C19/60 ; G01C19/64

Abstract:
Waveguide includes fork with first and second bifurcated ends coupled to loop section and separated by angle determined based on velocities of portions of quantum mechanical wavefunction of atoms traveling above waveguide. Waveguide propagates blue-detuned laser having first evanescent field that repels atoms away from waveguide and red-detuned laser having second evanescent field that attracts atoms toward waveguide, together creating potential minimum/well. Laser cooling atoms, causing atoms positioned in potential minimum/well to move toward first fork section following potential minimum/well. Atomic state initialization section initializes atomic states of atoms to known ground-state configuration. Beam splitter section splits quantum mechanical waveform of each atom above surface of diverging waveguide into first portion at first velocity that travels into first end of first fork section into first loop section and second portion at second velocity that travels into second end of first fork section into first loop section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160377436A1 DIVERGING WAVEGUIDE ATOMIC GYROSCOPE Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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