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The highly efficient coupling of light from conventional optical components to optical mode volumes lies in the heart of chip-based micro-devices, which is determined by the phase-matching between propagation constants of fiber taper and…

Inertial sensors based on cold atoms have great potential for navigation, geodesy, or fundamental physics. Similar to the Sagnac effect, their sensitivity increases with the space-time area enclosed by the interferometer. Here, we introduce…

We model a gyroscope that exploits quantum effects in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to gain a tunable enhancement in precision. Current inertial navigation systems rely on the Sagnac effect using unentangled photons in fibre-optic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

The intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains an open frontier in fundamental physics, with few experimentally accessible phenomena connecting the two. Recent theoretical proposals suggest that relativistic proper…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-23 Mohamed ElKabbash

We propose a method of atom-interferometry using a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a time-varying magnetic field acting as a coherent beam-splitter. Our protocol creates long-lived superpositional counterflow states, which are of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 John L. Helm , Thomas P. Billam , Ana Rakonjac , Simon L. Cornish , Simon A. Gardiner

We present two novel matter-wave Sagnac interferometers based on ring- shaped time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAP). For both the atoms are put into a superposition of two different spin states and manipulated independently using…

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 study the effect of rotation on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in slow-light waveguide structures consisting of coupled micro-ring resonators. We show that such configurations exhibit new a type of the Sagnac effect which can…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jacob Scheuer

The design of an integrated optical chip is proposed containing a rotation sensing ring resonator (optical gyroscope) coupled to an inverse weak value amplified Sagnac interferometer that amplifies the signal containing the phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-24 Kagan Yanik , Meiting Song , Yuhan Mei , Jaime Cardenas , Andrew N. Jordan

Only a few years ago, it was realized that the zero-area Sagnac interferometer topology is able to perform quantum nondemolition measurements of position changes of a mechanical oscillator. Here, we experimentally show that such an…

Optical gyroscopes based on the Sagnac effect have been widely used for inertial navigation in aircrafts, submarines, satellites and unmanned robotics. With the rapid progress in the field of ultrahigh-quality whispering gallery mode and…

We investigate quantum sensing of rotation with a multi-atom Sagnac interferometer and present multi-partite entangled states to enhance the sensitivity of rotation frequency. For studying the sensitivity, we first present a Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Fei Yao , Yanming Che , Yuguo Su , Hongbin Liang , Jiancheng Pei , Xiaoguang Wang

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

Optical gyroscope based on the Sagnac effect have excellent potential in the application of high-sensitivity inertial rotation sensors. In this paper, we demonstrate that for an optical resonance gyroscope with normal dispersion, the…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-04 Xiaoyang Chang , Wenxiu Li , Hao Zhang , Yang Zhou , Anping Huang , Zhisong Xiao

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 M. Kolár , T. Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

Electronic analogues of optical interferences have been used to investigate quantum phenomena in condensed matter. However, the most sensitive, Sagnac optical interference, has not been realized in the electronic domain. We report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Neda Lotfizadeh , Mitchell J. Senger , Daniel R. McCulley , Ethan D. Minot , Vikram V. Deshpande

The Sagnac Interferometer has historically been used for detecting non-reciprocal phenomena, such as rotation. We demonstrate an apparatus in which this technique is employed for high resolution measurements of the Magneto-Optical Polar…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Fried , Martin Fejer , Aharon Kapitulnik

Some of the most sensitive and precise measurements to date are based on matterwave interferometry with freely falling atomic clouds. Examples include high-precision measurements of inertia, gravity and rotation. In order to achieve these…

We have constructed a counterpropagating optical tweezers setup embedded in a Sagnac interferometer in order to increase the sensitivity of position tracking for particles in the geometrical optics regime. Enhanced position determination…

SAGE (SagnAc interferometer for Gravitational wavE) is a fast track project for a space observatory based on multiple 12-U CubeSats in geostationary orbit. The objective of this project is to create a Sagnac interferometer with 73000 km…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-03 S. Lacour , M. Nowak , P. Bourget , F. Vincent , A. Kellerer , V. Lapeyrere , L. David , A. Le Tiec , O. Straub , J. Woillez