Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology are developing a laser-based accelerometer, that they claim should offer much better performance than is currently possible.

ISRO has transferred 10 technologies, including advanced inertial sensors, to six Indian industries to foster innovation and ...

An optomechanical accelerometer that uses light to measure acceleration. Credit: F Zhou/NIST. An accelerometer that uses laser light instead of just mechanical strain can register changes as small as ...

BENGALURU: India’s space regulator-cum-promoter Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) Thursday ...

NIST’s new optomechanical accelerometer consists of two silicon chips, with an IR laser that enters the bottom chip and exiting at the top. The top chip contains a proof mass suspended by ...

These accelerometers have low noise and offer better performance than MEMS and PR accelerometers in all vibration and most shock applications. The PE accelerometer (left) is a single axis version ...

A laser pulse is fired at the atom that puts it in a superposition of two quantum states, which follow different trajectories much like photons travelling through an optical interferometer. A second ...

“BUILD A BETTER accelerometer and the world will make a beaten path to your door.” Not, perhaps, as snappy as Ralph Waldo Emerson’s original aphorism about a mousetrap. But it is the hope of ...

Accelerometers based on super-cooled atoms could keep track of your position with stunning precision. ... but laser-cooled atom clouds are changing all that,” says team leader Stephen Till.