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We demonstrate an atom interferometer that uses a laser-cooled continuous beam of $^{87}$Rb atoms having velocities of 10--20 m/s. With spatially separated Raman beams to coherently manipulate the atomic wave packets, Mach--Zehnder…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 H. B. Xue , Y. Y. Feng , S. Chen , X. J. Wang , X. S. Yan , Z. K. Jiang , Z. Y. Zhou

The CERN-NA-59 experiment examined a wide range of electromagnetic processes for multi-GeV electrons and photons interacting with oriented single crystals. The various types of crystals and their orientations were used for producing photon…

We present a "nanoladder" geometry that minimizes the mechanical dissipation of ultrasensitive cantilevers. A nanoladder cantilever consists of a lithographically patterned scaffold of rails and rungs with feature size $\sim$ 100 nm.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Héritier , A. Eichler , Y. Pan , U. Grob , I. Shorubalko , M. D. Krass , Y. Tao , C. L. Degen

We report the observation of a large-angle self-collimation phenomenon occurring in photonic crystals composed of nanorods. Electromagnetic waves incident onto such photonic crystals from directions covering a wide-range of incident angles…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-25 Hao Li , Aimin Wu , Wei Li , Xulin Lin , Chao Qiu , Zhen Sheng , Xi Wang , Shichang Zou , Fuwan Gan

We demonstrate a laser-driven, tunable electron lens fabricated in monolithic silicon. The lens consists of an array of silicon pillars pumped symmetrically by two 300 fs, 1.95 $\mu$m wavelength, nJ-class laser pulses from an optical…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Dylan S. Black , Kenneth J. Leedle , Yu Miao , Uwe Niedermayer , Robert L. Byer , Olav Solgaard

We have realized an interferometer using a thermal cloud of magnetically trapped rubidium 87 atoms on a chip. The interferometer resembles a Ramsey interferometer with a state selective spatial splitting of the two internal states as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 B. Wirtschafter , C. I. Westbrook , M. Dupont-Nivet

Future far-infrared astrophysics observatories will require focal plane arrays containing thousands of ultra-sensitive, superconducting detectors, each of which needs to be optically coupled to the telescope. At longer wavelengths, many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Nicholas F. Cothard , Thomas Stevenson , Jennette Mateo , Nicholas Costen , Kevin Denis , Joanna Perido , Ian Schrock , Frederick Wang , Jason Glenn

A simple and highly reproducible technique is demonstrated for the fabrication of metallic electrodes with nanometer separation. Commercially available bare gold colloidal nanoparticles are first trapped between prefabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Saiful I. Khondaker , Zhen Yao

The application of precision interferometers is generally restricted to expensive and smooth high-quality surfaces. Here, we offer a route to ultimate miniaturization of interferometer by integrating beam splitter, reference mirror and…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-23 Pooja Munjal , Kamal P. Singh

Interferometers measure a wide variety of dynamic processes by converting a phase change into an intensity change. Nonlinear interferometers, making use of nonlinear media in lieu of beamsplitters, promise substantial improvement in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Joseph M. Lukens , Nicholas A. Peters , Raphael C. Pooser

We have fabricated and measured ballistic graphene transistors with two oblique gates that can be independently biased. The gate lengths are about 38 nm and are separated by a distance of 30 nm, the tilting angle being of 45o with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

We have designed, fabricated and tested a micron-sized electron column with an overall length of about 700 microns comprising two electron lenses; a micro-lens with a minimal bore of 1 micron followed by a second lens with a bore of up to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-28 Flavio Wicki , Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

We provide the first demonstration that a neutron far-field interferometer can be employed to measure the microstructure of a sample. The interferometer is based on the moir\'e pattern of two phase modulating gratings which was previously…

We report our work on fabricating lithographically aligned patterned backgates on thin (50-60$\mu$m) \Roman{roman3}-\Roman{roman5} semiconductor samples using {\it single sided mask aligners only}. Along with this we also present a way to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. F. Croxall , K. Das Gupta , C. A. Nicoll , M. Thangaraj , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , M. Pepper

We demonstrate second order optical nonlinearity in a silicon architecture through heterogeneous integration of single-crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon (100) substrates. By engineering GaN microrings for dual resonance around…

An atom Michelson interferometer is implemented on an "atom chip." The chip uses lithographically patterned conductors and external magnetic fields to produce and guide a Bose-Einstein condensate. Splitting, reflecting, and recombining of…

We demonstrate a three phase-grating neutron interferometer as a robust candidate for large area interferometry applications and characterization of materials. This novel far-field moire technique allows for broad wavelength acceptance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-21 D. Sarenac , D. A. Pushin , M. G. Huber , D. S. Hussey , H. Miao , M. Arif , D. G. Cory , A. D. Cronin , B. Heacock , D. L. Jacobson , J. M. LaManna , H. Wen

Quantum-mechanical calculations of electron magnetotransport in graphene Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometers are presented with a focus on the role of spatial structure of edge channels. For an interferometer that is made by removing carbon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 S. Ihnatsenka

Integrated photonic devices are poised to play a key role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from optical interconnects and sensors to quantum computing. However, only a small library of semi-analytically designed devices are…

Quantum interference in nano-electronic devices could lead to reduced-energy computing and efficient thermoelectric energy harvesting. When devices are shrunk down to the molecular level it is still unclear to what extent electron…