The present application belongs to the field of precision measurement, and particularly discloses a method for measuring the transverse temperature of an
atomic group in an atomic interferometer. The present application first controls the size of the
atomic group at the moment of acting on the Raman light pulse by adjusting the opening time, and then performs a Rabi oscillation experiment under different
atomic group sizes. Then, the experimental data are fitted with a trigonometric function, and the key parameters reflecting the transverse temperature are extracted therefrom. Finally, the transverse temperature of the atomic group is obtained by inversion calculation. The method is based on the
Gaussian distribution of the atomic group density and the Raman
light intensity in the transverse space, and the
coupling result of the two is the non-uniformity of atomic transition in the transverse space, thereby affecting the average transition probability of the whole atomic group, i.e. the
linearity of the Rabi oscillation curve. Conversely, the
linearity of the Rabi oscillation of the atomic group contains the transverse parameters of the atomic group, and the transverse parameters of the atomic group are extracted from the
linearity of the Rabi oscillation. The present application can be completed only by relying on the atomic interferometer itself, and has low requirements for equipment, simple process and easy operation.