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Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Robert C. Griffith, Woodland Hills, CA (US);

Inventor:

Robert C. Griffith, Woodland Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/62 (2006.01); G01R 33/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/62 (2013.01); G01R 33/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

An NMR gyroscope system includes a vapor cell that includes an alkali metal, a first gyromagnetic isotope, and a second gyromagnetic isotope, and a pump laser generates an optical pump beam. A magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field that is substantially aligned with a sensitive axis to cause the first and second gyromagnetic isotopes to counter-precess based on the optical pump beam and the alkali metal. A probe laser provides an optical probe beam through the vapor cell that exits the vapor cell as a detection beam, and a detection system monitors the detection beam and to determine a rotation of the NMR gyroscope system about a sensitive axis based on a modulation of the detection beam in response to precession of the first and second gyromagnetic isotopes and based on a predetermined constant ratio of precession of the first and second gyromagnetic isotopes.


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