AOSense, Inc. https://aosense.com AOSense, Inc. - Sensors for a Quantum World Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:16:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://aosense.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-AO_monogram_square_300dpi-150x150.png AOSense, Inc. https://aosense.com 32 32 174172804 In the early days of the quantum age https://aosense.com/in-the-early-days-of-the-quantum-age/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:16:25 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=10226 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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]]> 10226 AOSense featured in episode of Elements by Seeker https://aosense.com/aosense-in-elements-by-seeker/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:28:42 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=2042 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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]]> 2042 NASA-Industry Team Creates and Demonstrates First Quantum Sensor for Satellite Gravimetry https://aosense.com/nasa-industry-team-creates-and-demonstrates-first-quantum-sensor-for-satellite-gravimetry/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:05:38 +0000 http://aosense.com/?p=1853 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. NASA-Industry Team Creates and Demonstrates First Quantum Sensor for Satellite Gravimetry NASA and the Sunnyvale, California-based AOSense, Inc., have successfully built and demonstrated a prototype quantum sensor capable […]

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]]> 1853 DAMOP 2017 https://aosense.com/damop-2017/ Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:48:23 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=1487 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 […]

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]]> 1487 Defense Secretary Carter’s Stanford Speech https://aosense.com/carter-stanford-speech/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 02:00:10 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=1300 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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]]> 1300 DARPA looks beyond GPS for positioning, navigating, and timing https://aosense.com/darpa-looks-beyond-gps-for-positioning-navigating-and-timing/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 05:06:14 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=1201 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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]]> 1201 Defense One: Four DARPA projects that could be bigger than the internet https://aosense.com/defense-one-four-darpa-projects-bigger-internet/ Wed, 21 May 2014 17:06:52 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=789 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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]]> 789 NASA: Atom optics come of age https://aosense.com/nasa-oct/ Thu, 07 Nov 2013 02:51:55 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=516 AOSense was featured in an article by NASA Goddard Office of the Chief Technologist: Atom optics come of age

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]]> 516 LLNL: Gravity signature of nuclear material https://aosense.com/gravity-signature-nuclear-material/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:05:42 +0000 https://migrate.aosense.com/?p=479 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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]]> 479 DARPA seeks to eliminate GPS dependence https://aosense.com/news-darpa-c-scan-gps-world/ Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:00:14 +0000 http://localhost/?p=273 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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