Generally, the phase of the cold-atom interferometer is extracted from the atomic interference fringe, which can be obtained by scanning the chirp rate of the Raman lasers at a given interrogation time T. If the phase shift for each T is mapped with a series of measurements, the extraction time is limited by the protocol of each T measurement, and therefore increases dramatically when fine mapping is conducted with a small step of T. In this paper, the authors present a new method for rapid extraction of the phase shift via phase demodulation. By using this method, the systematic shifts can be mapped though the whole interference area. This method enables quick diagnostics of the potential cause of the phase shift in specific time. It is demonstrated experimentally that this method is effective for the evaluation of the systematic errors of the cold atomic gravimeter. The systematic phase error induced by the quadratic Zeeman effect in the free-falling region is extracted by this method. The measured results correspond well with the theoretic prediction and also agree with the results obtained by the fringe fitting method for each T.
程冰, 王兆英, 许翱鹏, 王启宇, 林强. 冷原子干涉型重力仪中系统误差的快速获取[J]. 物探与化探, 2015, 39(S1): 53-57.
CHENG Bing, WANG Zhao-Ying, XU Ao-Peng, WANG Qi-Yu, LIN Qiang. Rapid extraction of the systematic error in the cold-atom gravimeter. Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, 2015, 39(S1): 53-57.
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