High contrast Mach-Zehnder lithium atom interferometer in the Bragg regime
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v3 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We have constructed an atom interferometer of the Mach-Zehnder type, operating with a supersonic beam of lithium. Atom diffraction uses Bragg diffraction on laser standing waves. With first order diffraction, our apparatus has given a large signal and a very good fringe contrast (74%), which we believe to be the highest ever observed with atom interferometers. This apparatus will be applied to high sensitivity measurements
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0111052,
title = {High contrast Mach-Zehnder lithium atom interferometer in the Bragg regime},
author = {R. Delhuille and C. Champenois and M. Buchner and L. Jozefowski and C. Rizzo and G. Trenec and J. Vigue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0111052},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Appl. Phys. B