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.
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Item type: Article ID code: 79930 Dates: DateEvent17 March 2022Published15 March 2022AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 22 Mar 2022 10:59 Last modified: 03 Oct 2024 00:37 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79930