Impact of Raman lasers beam profile inhomogeneities on a spaceborne quantum accelerometer
Abstract
We report on the study of the impact of laser beam profile inhomogeneities on the acceleration measurements of a quantum accelerometer in space. This sensor uses a low ballistic expansion source based on delta-kick collimated Bose-Einstein condensates, and an interferometer configuration based on a sequence of Raman double diffraction beamsplitters, best suited to the microgravity environment. We characterize both phase and intensity fluctuations in terms of power spectral densities and calculate their impact on the interferometer phase, averaging over all trajectories of the atoms, via numerical simulations based on randomly drawn laser profiles as well as via analytical treatments. We show that high quality optics, such as those realized for gravitational wave detectors, combined with large initial size atomic sources, will allow to reduce interferometer phase bias and fluctuations to the order of 1 mrad corresponding to accelerations in the low 10 -12 m.s -2 range.
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BibTeX
@misc{kaczmarczuk2026impact,
title = {{Impact of Raman lasers beam profile inhomogeneities on a spaceborne quantum accelerometer}},
author = {Benoit Kaczmarczuk and Gabriel Ducasse and Louis Pagot and Quentin Beaufils and Franck Pereira dos Santos},
howpublished = {HAL},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.11634},
eprint = {2609.11634},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05739371v1},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Impact of Raman lasers beam profile inhomogeneities on a spaceborne quantum accelerometer
AU - Benoit Kaczmarczuk
AU - Gabriel Ducasse
AU - Louis Pagot
AU - Quentin Beaufils
AU - Franck Pereira dos Santos
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - HAL
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.11634
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05739371v1
AB - We report on the study of the impact of laser beam profile inhomogeneities on the acceleration measurements of a quantum accelerometer in space. This sensor uses a low ballistic expansion source based on delta-kick collimated Bose-Einstein condensates, and an interferometer configuration based on a sequence of Raman double diffraction beamsplitters, best suited to the microgravity environment. We characterize both phase and intensity fluctuations in terms of power spectral densities and calculate their impact on the interferometer phase, averaging over all trajectories of the atoms, via numerical simulations based on randomly drawn laser profiles as well as via analytical treatments. We show that high quality optics, such as those realized for gravitational wave detectors, combined with large initial size atomic sources, will allow to reduce interferometer phase bias and fluctuations to the order of 1 mrad corresponding to accelerations in the low 10 -12 m.s -2 range.
ER -