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This publication presents a novel interferometric method for the simultaneous spatially resolved analysis of an object under test regarding the phase transmission function and the magnitude and orientation of dichroism. Analogous to the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-12 Sergej Rothau , Xiao Rao , Norbert Lindlein

We measure a transverse momentum kick in a Sagnac interferometer using weak-value amplification with two postselections. The first postselection is controlled by a polarization dependent phase mismatch between both paths of a Sagnac…

The polarization of light is critical in various applications, including quantum communication, where the photon polarization encoding a qubit can undergo uncontrolled changes when transmitted through optical fibers. Bends in the fiber,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Niklas Braband , Arman Mansouri , Riza Fazili , Stefanie Czischek , Jeff S. Lundeen

In the classical model of atomic polarizability, atomic charges are displaced by an applied electric field, assuming the electron cloud remains spherically symmetric but with its center shifted from the nucleus, thereby inducing an electric…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim

We demonstrate a simple, robust, and ultrabright parametric down-conversion source of polarization-entangled photons based on a polarization Sagnac interferometer. Bidirectional pumping in type-II phase-matched periodically poled KTiOPO4…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Taehyun Kim , Marco Fiorentino , Franco N. C. Wong

We demonstrate a nontraditional design of the Sagnac interferometer by replacing the commonly used beam splitter with a linear-optical Grover multiport. This substitution creates a pole at the origin of the device parameter space with an…

We analyze methods to go beyond the standard quantum limit for a class of atomic interferometers, where the quantity of interest is the difference of phase shifts obtained by two independent atomic ensembles. An example is given by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Eckert , P. Hyllus , D. Bruss , U. V. Poulsen , M. Lewenstein , C. Jentsch , T. Mueller , E. M. Rasel , W. Ertmer

The polarisation Sagnac speedmeter interferometer has the potential to replace the Michelson interferometer as the instrumental basis for future generations of ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The quantum noise benefit of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 A. P Spencer , B. W Barr , A. S. Bell , J. Briggs , P. Dupej , S. H. Huttner , B. Sorazu , J. Wright , K. A. Strain

The computation of the phase shift in a symmetric atom interferometer in the presence of a gravitational field is reviewed. The difference of action-phase integrals between the two paths of the interferometer is zero for any Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-16 Peter Wolf , Luc Blanchet , Christian J. Bordé , Serge Reynaud , Christophe Salomon , Clande Cohen-Tannoudji

We experimentally demonstrate optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer utilizing displaced Sagnac configuration to enhance its phase stability. The interferometer with footprint of 27x40 cm offers individually accessible paths and shows phase…

As a fundamental optical approach to interferometry, Sagnac interference has been widely used for reflection manipulation, precision measurements, and spectral engineering in optical systems. Compared to other interferometry configurations,…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 David J. Moss

We present a theory of the transmission of incoherent guided matter-waves through Sagnac interferometers. Interferometer configurations with only one input and one output port have a property similar to the phase rigidity observed in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Japha , O. Arzouan , Y. Avishai , R. Folman

Light-pulse atom interferometers are powerful quantum sensors, however, their accuracy for example in tests of the weak equivalence principle is limited by various spurious influences like magnetic stray fields or blackbody radiation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Christian Ufrecht , Enno Giese

Active optical systems can give rise to intriguing phenomena and applications that are not available in conventional passive systems. Structural rotation has been widely employed to achieve non-reciprocity or time-reversal symmetry…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Hongkang Shi , Zhongfei Xiong , Weijin Chen , Jing Xu , Shubo Wang , Yuntian Chen

Metrology in atomic physics has been crucial for a number of advanced determinations of fundamental constants. In addition to very precise frequency measurements, the molar polarizability of an atomic gas has recently also been measured…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 U. D. Jentschura , M. Puchalski , P. J. Mohr

The ring interferometer with zero optical path difference known as Sagnac one is offered with a diffraction splitting of the entering light beam. As the beamsplitter, a transmission holographic Bragg grating is used. Conditions of normal…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 E. A. Tikhonov , A. K. Lyamets

Relativistic dipolar to hexadecapolar polarizabilities of the ground state and some excited states of hydrogenic atoms are calculated by using numerically exact energies and wave functions obtained from the Dirac equation with the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Livio Filippin , Michel Godefroid , Daniel Baye

If the structure of spacetime is discrete, then Lorentz symmetry should only be an approximation, valid at long length scales. At finite lattice spacings there will be small corrections to the Dirac evolution that could in principle be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Todd A. Brun , Leonard Mlodinow

Dissipative optomechanics studies the coupling of the motion of an optical element to the decay rate of a cavity. We propose and theoretically explore a realization of this system in the optical domain, using a combined Michelson--Sagnac…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-17 André Xuereb , Roman Schnabel , Klemens Hammerer

Matter-wave interferometry plays a significant role in scientific research and technological applications. While position-momentum phase-space squeezing has been demonstrated to increase the coherence of atom sources by reducing momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Yiftach Halevy , Yali Cina , Omer Feldman , David Groswasser , Yonathan Japha , Ron Folman