Atoms (Mar 2024)

Continuous Acceleration Sensing Using Optomechanical Droplets

  • Gordon R. M. Robb,
  • Josh G. Walker,
  • Gian-Luca Oppo,
  • Thorsten Ackemann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms12030015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
p. 15

Abstract

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We show that a Bose–Einstein Condensate illuminated by a far off-resonant optical pump field and its retroreflection from a feedback mirror can produce stable, localised structures known as optomechanical droplets. We show that these droplets could be used to measure the acceleration of a BEC via continuous monitoring of the position of the droplet via the optical intensity distribution.

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