PHYSICAL REVIEW A 93, 043610 (2016)
Min-kang Zhou, Qin Luo, Le-le Chen, Xiao-chun Duan, and Zhong-kun Hu *
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurements, School of Physics, Huazhong University
of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074,People’s Republic of China
(Received 8 December 2015; published 11 April 2016)
The effect of wavefront aberrations is one of the most important systematic errors in atom interferometers and limits the accuracy of precision atom gravimeters. A detailed theoretical analysis of this effect is presented, and a theoretical method for observing this effect is proposed and demonstrated in experiment. In addition, with this method, the surface quality of the optical elements in the Raman system was measured with a rms resolution of 0.01λ.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.93.043610
