Demonstration of a compact magneto-optical trap on an unstaffed aerial vehicle

Earl, Luuk and Vovrosh, Jamie and Wright, Michael and Roberts, Daniel and Winch, Jonathan and Perea-Ortiz, Marisa and Lamb, Andrew and Hayati, Farzad and Griffin, Paul and Metje, Nicole and Bongs, Kai and Holynski, Michael (2022) Demonstration of a compact magneto-optical trap on an unstaffed aerial vehicle. Atoms, 10 (1). 32. ISSN 2218-2004 (https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms10010032)

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Abstract

The extraordinary performance offered by cold atom-based clocks and sensors has the opportunity to profoundly affect a range of applications, for example in gravity surveys, enabling long term monitoring applications through low drift measurements. While ground-based devices are already starting to enter the commercial market, significant improvements in robustness and reductions to size, weight, and power are required for such devices to be deployed by Unstaffed Aerial Vehicle systems (UAV). In this article, we realise the first step towards the deployment of cold atom based clocks and sensors on UAV’s by demonstrating an UAV portable magneto-optical trap system, the core package of cold atom based systems. This system is able to generate clouds of 2.1±0.2×107 atoms, in a package of 370 mm × 350 mm × 100 mm, weighing 6.56 kg, consuming 80 W of power.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:79930
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    17 March 2022
    Published
    15 March 2022
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:22 Mar 2022 10:59
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 13:25
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79930
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