AOSense, Inc. was featured in the news by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in April 2022: SPIE: Photonics in the early days of quantum age. AOSense was highlighted as a small company that created the first generation of quantum technology and capable of making novel products in quantum gravimetry (see Gravity Measurement). […]
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AOSense’s work on a gravity gradiometer was featured in Season 4, Episode 106 of Elements, a science video series by Seeker. The episode, “NASA’s Quantum Sensor Is Using Atoms To Measure Earth’s Gravity, Here’s How,” explores the implementation of quantum phenomena to measure gravity more precisely than by traditional methods. Learn more about how AOSense
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On December 20, 2018, NASA issued a press release about AOSense’s project building a quantum sensor for satellite gravimetry. The contents of the release are included below.
AOSense was pleased to participate in the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics (DAMOP) meeting from June 5-9, 2017 in Sacramento. We exhibited our ECDLs, Integrated Laser Controllers (ILCs), ILC-Servos, miniature ion pump, atom sources, and miniature optical isolators. We presented a poster, “Development of an Atom Interferometer Gravity Gradiometer
The Washington Post covered Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s speech at Stanford University, in which he mentioned AOSense’s work on navigation sensors. At the Pentagon, Carter looks to a bygone era as a way to the future
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Physics Today presents an overview of several DARPA programs that aim to improve positioning, navigation, and timing – including AOSense’s work on cold atom inertial sensors and optical clocks. DARPA looks beyond GPS for positioning, navigating, and timing
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Defense One cites Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigation (C-SCAN) and Quantum Assisted Sensing and Readout (QuASAR) DARPA programs, two major AOSense projects, as key DARPA efforts to improve upon GPS with atomic sensors. Four DARPA projects that could be bigger than the internet
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AOSense was featured in an article by NASA Goddard Office of the Chief Technologist: Atom optics come of age
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AOSense is collaborating with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on development of sensors and algorithms for detecting the gravity signature of nuclear material for vehicle border crossings, as highlighted in the following Lawrence Livermore Science & Technology Review article: Gravity Detector Applies Outside-the-Box Thinking to Show What’s Inside the Box
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GPS World has an article about our DARPA C-SCAN effort to make compact, high performance inertial measurement units suitable for widespread deployment on highly dynamic platforms. DARPA seeks to eliminate GPS dependence
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