NRL Charters Navy’s Inertial Navigation Path To Reduce Drift (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

NRL Charters Navy’s Inertial Navigation Path To Reduce Drift

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Jonathan Kwolek, Ph.D., a research physicist from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Quantum Optics Section attaches fiber-optic cables to deliver light into the compact laser-delivery system, which is carefully aligned around a custom vacuum cell in the NRL Atom Interferometry Lab, Nov. 2, 2023. The apparatus will generate a cold, continuous atomic beam which will be delivered into the larger vacuum chamber to address Navy craft inertial navigation challenges. (U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen)

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(U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen)

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