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We demonstrated the first-order interference between coherent light at 1580 nm and 795 nm by using frequency-domain Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The MZI is implemented by two frequency-domain BSs based on a second-order nonlinear…

We use a Mach-Zehnder quantum Hall interferometer of a novel design to investigate the interference effects at fractional filling factors. Our device brings together the advantages of usual Mach-Zehnder and Fabry-Perot quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. V. Deviatov , S. V. Egorov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba

We investigate theoretically the behavior of the current oscillations in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as a function of its source bias. Recently, The MZI interference visibility showed an unexplained lobe pattern behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Neder , E. Ginossar

Two optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers were constructed in an environment with a temperature stabilization of better than 1 mK per day. One interferometer with a length of 2 m optical fiber in each arm with the main direction of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Victor de Haan

Atom interferometers are very sensitive to accelerations and rotations. This property, which has some very interesting applications, induces a deleterious phase noise due to the seismic noise of the laboratory and this phase noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Miffre , M. Jacquey , M. Büchner , G. Trénec , J. Vigué

A new technique for maintaining high contrast in an atom interferometer is used to measure large de Broglie wave phase shifts. Dependence of an interaction induced phase on the atoms' velocity is compensated by applying an engineered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tony D. Roberts , Alexander D. Cronin , Martin V. Tiberg , David E. Pritchard

Manipulating cold atoms in traps is a key tool for numerous realizations of quantum simulators and quantum sensors. They require accurate modeling and characterization of the underlying trapping potentials. We introduce a technique based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Alexander Wolf , Maxim A. Efremov

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

Improving interferometric phase sensitivity is crucial for high-precision measurements in rapidly developing quantum technologies. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is a versatile tool for analyzing this phenomenon. By splitting and…

We describe progress toward a precise measurement of the recoil energy of an atom measured using a perturbative grating-echo atom interferometer (AI) that involves three standing-wave (sw) pulses. With this technique, a perturbing sw pulse…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 B. Barrett , A. Carew , S. Beattie , A. Kumarakrishnan

Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers (AMZIs) can, in principle, enable continuous wavelength tuning of a laser when used as an intra-cavity filter. Their simplicity and good compatibility with generic foundry platforms are major…

Interferometers are some of the most important optical devices, yet their spin wave based analogues so far received limited attention. In this work we demonstrate how one can design Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) operating on spin waves,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-26 Kirill A. Rivkin

Atomic three-grating Mach-Zehnder interferometry constitutes an important tool to probe fundamental aspects of the quantum theory. There is, however, a remarkable gap in the literature between the oversimplified models and robust numerical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 A. S. Sanz , M. Davidovic , M. Bozic

A new approach to the theory of atoms' interaction with chirped Raman pulses is developed. When the pulses have sufficiently close effective wave lengths, which are smaller than the atomic cloud size, equations for the family of the matrix…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 B. Dubetsky

We introduce shaken lattice interferometry with atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. By phase modulating (shaking) the lattice, we control the momentum state of the atoms. Through a sequence of shaking functions, the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 C. A. Weidner , Hoon Yu , Ronnie Kosloff , and Dana Z. Anderson

In this article, we present a deflection measurement setup for Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). It is based on a quadrature phase differential interferometer: we measure the optical path difference between a laser beam reflecting above the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 Pierdomenico Paolino , Felipe A. Aguilar Sandoval , Ludovic Bellon

We present an atom interferometry technique in which the beamsplitter is split into two separate operations. A microwave pulse first creates a spin-state superposition, before optical adiabatic passage spatially separates the arms of that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Matt Jaffe , Victoria Xu , Philipp Haslinger , Holger Müller , Paul Hamilton

A beam splitter is a key component used to direct and combine light paths in various optical and microwave systems. It plays a crucial role in devices like interferometers, such as the Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel setups, where it splits…

We present a method for determining the phase and contrast of a single shot of an atom interferometer. The application of a phase shear across the atom ensemble yields a spatially varying fringe pattern at each output port, which can be…

In this work, we discuss two phase-measurement methods for the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) in the presence of internal losses and give the corresponding optimum conditions. We find theoretically that when the core parameters…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Wenfeng Huang , Xinyun Liang , Chun-Hua Yuan , Weiping Zhang , Liqing Chen