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We investigate Ramsey spectroscopy performed on a synchronized ensemble of two-level atoms. The synchronization is induced by the collective coupling of the atoms to a heavily damped mode of an optical cavity. We show that, in principle,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Minghui Xu , M. J. Holland

The spectrum of the light scattered from an extended atomic wave packet is calculated. For a wave packet consisting of two spatially separated peaks moving on parallel trajectories, the spectrum contains Ramsey-like fringes that are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Dubetsky , P. R. Berman

Time-resolved near-infrared absorption spectroscopy of single non-repeatable transient events is performed at high spectral resolution with a dual-comb interferometer using a continuous-wave laser followed by a single electro-optic…

Optical frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers have revolutionised the field of metrology and precision spectroscopy by providing precisely calibrated optical frequencies and coherent pulse trains. Amplification of the pulsed output…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Jonas Morgenweg , Itan Barmes , Kjeld S. E. Eikema

We present a new technique for the detection of two-mode squeezed states of light that allows for a simple characterization of these quantum states. The usual detection scheme, based on heterodyne measurements, requires the use of a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alberto M. Marino , C. R. Stroud, , Vincent Wong , Ryan S. Bennink , Robert W. Boyd

We develop a formalism to describe squeezed light with large spectral-temporal correlations. This description is valid in all regimes, but is especially applicable in the long pulse to continuous-wave limit where the photon density at any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 C. Drago , J. E. Sipe

Ramsey interferometry is a key technique for precision spectroscopy and to probe the coherence of quantum systems. Typically, an interferometer is constructed using two quantum states and involves a time-dependent interaction with two short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Chetan Sriram Madasu , Ketan Damji Rathod , Chang Chi Kwong , David Wilkowski

We propose a set of experiments in which Ramsey-fringe techniques are tailored to probe transitions originating and terminating on the same ground state level. When pulses of resonant radiation, separated by a time delay $% T, $ interact…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tycho Sleator , Paul R. Berman , Boris Dubetsky

An exact generalization of the Ramsey transition probability is derived to improve ultra-high precision measurement and quantum state engineering when a particle is subjected to independently-tailored separated oscillating fields. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 T. Zanon-Willette , V. I. Yudin , A. V. Taichenachev

For conventional imaging, the imaging resolution limit is given by the Rayleigh criterion. Exploiting the prior knowledge of imaging object's sparsity and fixed optical system, imaging beyond the conventional Rayleigh limit, which is backed…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-30 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

We develop an iterative, adaptive frequency sensing protocol based on Ramsey interferometry of a two-level system. Our scheme allows one to estimate unknown frequencies with a high precision from short, finite signals. It avoids several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Avishek Chowdhury , Anh Tuan Le , Eva M. Weig , Hugo Ribeiro

We investigate the prospects of using two-mode intensity squeezed twin-beams, generated in Rb vapor, to improve the sensitivity of spectroscopic measurements by engaging two-photon Raman transitions. As a proof of principle demonstration,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Nikunjkumar Prajapati , Ziqi Niu , Irina Novikova

Magnetic spectroscopy at the nanoscale provides unique insights into material properties and dynamics, with quantum sensors like nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers being ideally suited for these scales. However, detecting low-frequency signals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Inbar Zohar , Santiago Oviedo-Casado , Andrej Denisenko , Rainer Stöhr , Amit Finkler

We analyze an efficient frequency estimation scheme that is applied to measure the unknown frequency of an atomic state in Ramsey spectroscopy. The scheme is employing appropriate combinations of uncorrelated probe atoms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Changhun Oh , Wonmin Son

Optical spectroscopy and imaging of microscopic samples have opened up a wide range of applications throughout the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. High chemical specificity may be achieved by directly interrogating the…

We report a narrowing of the interference pattern obtained in an atomic Ramsey interferometer if the two separated fields have different frequency and their phase difference is controlled. The width of the Ramsey fringes depends inversely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 D. Seidel , J. G. Muga

Sophisticated Ramsey-based interrogation protocols using composite laser pulse sequences have been recently proposed to provide next-generation high-precision atomic clocks with a near perfect elimination of frequency shifts induced during…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. Shuker , J. W. Pollock , R. Boudot , V. I. Yudin , A. V. Taichenachev , J. Kitching , E. A. Donley

We demonstrate Ramsey-Bord\'e (RB) atom interferometry for high performance laser stabilization with fractional frequency instability $<2 \times 10^{-16}$ for timescales between 10 and 1000s. The RB spectroscopy laser interrogates two…

We calculate the utility of high-frequency squeezed-state enhanced two-frequency interferometry for low-frequency phase measurement. To use the high-frequency sidebands of the squeezed light, a two-frequency intense laser is used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zehui Zhai , Jiangrui Gao

A pair of resonant laser fields can drive a three-level system into a dark state where it seizes to absorb and emit radiation due to destructive interference. We propose a scheme to search for this resonance by randomly changing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Alexander Holm Kiilerich , Klaus Mølmer