A team from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Oklahoma, have developed a technique for achieving the ultra-high vacuum (UHV) needed for inertial guidance atomic gyroscope ...

NIST physicist Elizabeth Donley holds a card used to trace the paths of laser beams in the atomic gyroscope. The atoms are in a small glass container inside the magnetic shield box with the pink ...

Atomic quantum sensors have a wide range of applications, including fundamental physics research, navigation systems such as advanced versions of gyroscopes, geological surveying for measuring ...

If keeping a network of atomic clocks in sync is hard ... these problems and one of them is the recently completed laser gyroscope ROMY, located at an underground facility near Munich, Germany.