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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 16: Poster: Quantum information, micromechanical oscillators, matter wave optics, precision measurements and metrology
Q 16.60: Poster
Monday, March 17, 2014, 16:30–18:30, Spree-Palais
MAIUS - a rocket-based atom interferometer in space — •Maike Diana Lachmann1, Dennis Becker1, Stephan Tobias Seidel1, Ernst Maria Rasel1, and The QUANTUS Team1,2,3,4,5,6,7 — 1Institut für Quantenoptik, LU Hannover — 2Zarm, Universität Bremen — 3Institut für Physik, HU Berlin — 4Institut für Laserphysik, Universität Hamburg — 5Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm — 6Institut für angewandte Physik, TU Darmstadt — 7FBH, Berlin
The development of space-qualified technologies for rocket-based missions would mark a major advancement towards a precise measurement of the equivalence principle with a space-born atom interferometer. With the launch of the rocket-based atom interferometer MAIUS in November 2014 we plan to create a Bose-Einstein condensate and to demonstrate atom interferometry in space for the first time. The poster shows the setup, the up to date progress and future prospects of this ambitious and technically challenging project.
The QUANTUS project is supported by the German Space Agency DLR with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) under grant number DLR 50 WM 1131.