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Accelerometer sensitivity gets a laser boost

10 Apr 2021 Isabelle Dumé
Illustration of an optomechanical accelerometer
An optomechanical accelerometer that uses light to measure acceleration. Credit: F Zhou/NIST
An accelerometer that uses laser light instead of just mechanical strain can register changes as sma

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