• Acta Physica Sinica
  • Vol. 68, Issue 18, 183301-1 (2019)
Bin Chen1、2, Jin-Bao Long1、2, Hong-Tai Xie1、2, Luo-Kan Chen1、2, and Shuai Chen1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Modern Physics,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Shanghai 201315, China
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    DOI: 10.7498/aps.68.20190443 Cite this Article
    Bin Chen, Jin-Bao Long, Hong-Tai Xie, Luo-Kan Chen, Shuai Chen. A mobile three-dimensional active vibration isolator and its application to cold atom interferometry[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(18): 183301-1 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Vibration noise has an influence on the sensitivity and stability for many precision instruments, especially for atom interferometers. In this paper, a mobile three-dimensional active vibration isolation system is established for portable atom interferometer that is effectively isolated from the ground vibration, thereby improving the sensitivity of the portable atom interferometer, and can be deployed and recovered to working state rapidly. With the home-developed integrated feedback algorithm, this system achieves a good vibration suppression in a wide frequency range in three directions. It suppresses the ground vibration by three orders of magnitude in the vertical direction, and one order of magnitude in the horizontal direction. In a frequency range less than 10 Hz which the atom interferometer is sensitive to, the vibration noise is suppressed to 4.8 × 10–9 m/s2/Hz1/2 in the vertical direction and to 2.7 × 10–7 m/s2/Hz1/2 in the horizontal direction. The influence of vibration noise on the sensitivity of the atom interferometer reaches to 2 μGal/Hz1/2, which is reduced by two orders of magnitude compared with the result without our system.
    Bin Chen, Jin-Bao Long, Hong-Tai Xie, Luo-Kan Chen, Shuai Chen. A mobile three-dimensional active vibration isolator and its application to cold atom interferometry[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(18): 183301-1
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