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We present a compact and transportable inertial sensor for precision sensing of rotations and accelerations. The sensor consists of a dual atom interferometer operated with laser-cooled 87Rb. Raman processes are employed to coherently manipulate the matter waves. We describe and characterize the experimental apparatus. A method for passing from a compact geometry to an extended interferometer with three independent atom-light interaction zones is proposed and investigated. The extended geometry will enhance the sensitivity by more than two orders of magnitude which is necessary to achieve sensitivities better than 10-8rad/s/\(\sqrt{\rm Hz}\).
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Müller, T., Gilowski, M., Zaiser, M. et al. A compact dual atom interferometer gyroscope based on laser-cooled rubidium. Eur. Phys. J. D 53, 273–281 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2009-00139-0
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