- Patent Title: Matter-wave gravimeter with microwave separation at the magic field
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Application No.: US14704556Application Date: 2015-05-05
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Publication No.: US09791593B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Mahdi Ammar , Sylvain Schwartz , Landry Huet
- Applicant: THALES
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: Thales
- Current Assignee: Thales
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agency: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Agent Michael J. Donohue
- Priority: FR1401106 20140516
- Main IPC: G01V7/02
- IPC: G01V7/02 ; G01V7/00

Abstract:
The general field of the invention is that of matter-wave gravimeters. The gravimeter according to the invention comprises at least: means for generating, for capturing and for cooling a cloud of ultra-cold atoms; means of transferring the atoms into a superposition, with equal weights, of a first internal electronic state called state |1>) and of a second internal electronic state called state |2> comprising the application of at least a first microwave field and of a radiofrequency field; means for separating the atoms into two wave packets for a given period of time under the effect of at least a second microwave field, the said separation leading to a phase-shift associated with the local gravitational field; calibration means allowing a “magic” magnetostatic field to be determined for which the difference in energy between the first internal electronic state and the second internal electronic state is independent, to a first order, of the fluctuations of the magnetostatic field.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150331142A1 MATTER-WAVE GRAVIMETER WITH MICROWAVE SEPARATION AT THE MAGIC FIELD Public/Granted day:2015-11-19
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