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Synthetic optical structures have enabled studies of various physical processes and discoveries of new phenomena in a controllable manner. Past realizations, using for example coupled optical waveguides, were however limited in size and…

We derive an expression for the phase shift of an atom interferometer in a gravitational field taking into account both the finite duration of the light pulses and the effect of a small perturbing potential added to a stronger uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Bertoldi , F. Minardi , M. Prevedelli

Optical-frequency synthesizers are lasers stabilized and programmed from a microwave clock for applications, especially in fundamental measurements and spectroscopy, optical-communication links, and precision sensing of numerous physical…

Phase shifting interferometric (PSI) techniques are among the most sensitive phase measurement methods. Owing to its high sensitivity, any minute phase change caused due to environmental instability results into, inaccurate phase…

Optical frequency comb (OFC) technology has been the cornerstone for scientific breakthroughs such as precision frequency metrology, redefinition of time, extreme light-matter interaction, and attosecond sciences. While the current…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-10 S. -W. Huang , A. Kumar , J. Yang , M. Yu , D. -L. Kwong , C. W. Wong

We scan the collision energy of two clouds of cesium atoms between 12 and 50 $\mu$K in atomic fountain clock. By directly detecting the difference of s-wave scattering phase shifts, we observe a rapid variation of a scattering phase shift…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Stephen D. Gensemer , Ross B. Martin-Wells , Aaron W. Bennett , Kurt Gibble

Atom interferometers typically use the total populations the interferometer's output ports as the signal, but finer spatial structure can contain useful information. We pattern a matter-wave phase profile onto an atomic sample. An…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Eric Copenhaver , Kayleigh Cassella , Robert Berghaus , Holger Müller

The frequency-dependent amplitude and phase in piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) measurements are shown to be a consequence of the Euler-Bernoulli (EB) dynamics of atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever beams used to make the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Roger Proksch

The recent introduction of coherent optical communications has created a compelling need for ultra-fast phase-sensitive measurement techniques operating at milliwatt peak power levels and in time scales ranging from sub-picoseconds to…

Optomechanical oscillators (OMOs) combine the co-existing high quality factor mechanical and optical resonances in an integrated device to realize low phase noise RF oscillations. While several attempts have been demonstrated towards…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-08 Cijy Mathai , Sunil A. Bhave , Siddharth Tallur

This paper presents a new procedure for phase detector measurements that allows the use of generators that share a 10 MHz reference oscillator but do not synchronize in phase, in other words, quasi-synchronized RF generators. The objectives…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 V. A. Pulido , F. Cabrera-Almeida , P. Quintana-Morales , E. Mendieta-Otero

Thanks to common-mode noise rejection, differential configurations are crucial for realistic applications of phase and frequency estimation with atom interferometers. Currently, differential protocols with uncorrelated particles and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Robin Corgier , Marco Malitesta , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

We developed a compact and easy-to-use phase meter based on a zero-crossing counting algorithm for digitized signals. Owing to the algorithm, the phase meter has low-noise and wide dynamic range. Low-noise differential phase measurements…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-18 Wataru Kokuyama , Hideaki Nozato , Thomas R. Schibli

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

The structural complexity and instability of many interference phase microscopy methods are the major obstacles toward high-precision phase measurement. In this vein, improving more efficient configurations as well as proposing new methods…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Samira Ebrahimi , Masoomeh Dashtdar

We have proposed to employ the microwave S parameters method to measure phase oscillation modes (POMs) in Josephson coupled-layered superconductors. For the first time, in SmBa2Cu3O7 (SmBCO) and YBa2Cu3O7-b (YBCO) at 77 K we have directly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Y. Lai , X. Yao , X. H. Zeng , H. Zheng , W. Z. Shen , X. Y. Chen , H. G. Shen

Reducing errors in quantum gates is critical to the development of quantum computers. To do so, any distortions in the control signals should be identified, however, conventional tools are not always applicable when part of the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 M. F. Gely , J. M. Litarowicz , A. D. Leu , D. M. Lucas

We consider a spatially inhomogeneous sine-Gordon equation with a time-periodic drive, modeling a microwave driven long Josephson junction with phase-shifts. Under appropriate conditions, Josephson junctions with phase-shifts can have a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-17 Amir Ali , Hadi Susanto , Jonathan Wattis

Coherent microwave-to-optical conversion is crucial for transferring quantum information generated in the microwave domain to optical frequencies, where propagation losses can be minimised. Among the various physical platforms that have…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Benjamin D. Smith , Bahar Babaei , Andal Narayanan , Lindsay J. LeBlanc

Atmospheric water vapor causes significant undesired phase fluctuations for the Submillimeter Array (SMA) interferometer, particularly in its highest frequency observing band of 690 GHz. One proposed solution to this atmospheric effect is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Y. Kubo , T. R. Hunter , R. D. Christensen , P. I. Yamaguchi