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We propose a scheme for trapped atom interferometry using an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. The condensate is controlled and spatially split in two confined external momentum modes through a series Bragg pulses. The proposed scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Robin Corgier , Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

We consider the calibration of an optical quantum gyroscope by modeling two Sagnac interferometers, mounted approximately at right angles to each other. Reliable operation requires that we know the angle between the interferometers with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Pieter Kok , Jacob Dunningham , Jason F. Ralph

A setup is proposed to enhance tracking of very small particles, by using optical tweezers embedded within a Sagnac interferometer. The achievable signal-to-noise ratio is shown to be enhanced over that for a standard optical tweezers…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. A. Taylor , J. Knittel , M. T. L. Hsu , H. -A. Bachor , W. P. Bowen

We present the first experimental demonstration of the optical Sagnac effect at the single-photon level. Using a high quality guided-wave heralded single- photon source at 1550 nm and a fibre optics setup, we obtain an interference pattern…

We analyze the influence of gravitational waves on a Sagnac interferometer formed by the interference of two counter-propagating beams traversing a closed spatial loop. In addition to the well-known Sagnac phase shift, we identify an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Reza Javadinezhad , Ali Seraj

We demonstrate a nontraditional design of the Sagnac interferometer by replacing the commonly used beam splitter with a linear-optical Grover multiport. This substitution creates a pole at the origin of the device parameter space with an…

SAGE (SagnAc interferometer for Gravitational wavE) is a project for a space observatory based on multiple 12-U CubeSats in geosynchronous orbit. The objective is a fast track mission which would fill the observational gap between LISA and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 S Lacour , F H Vincent , M Nowak , A Le Tiec , V Lapeyrere , L David , P Bourget , A Kellerer , K Jani , J Martino , J-Y Vinet , O Godet O Straub , J Woillez

Matter-wave interferometer of ultracold atoms with different linear momenta has been extensively studied in theory and experiment. The vortex matter-wave interferometer with different angular momenta is applicable as a quantum sensor for…

Armstrong et al. have recently presented new ways of combining signals to precisely cancel laser frequency noise in spaceborne interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LISA. One of these combinations, the symmetrized Sagnac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Craig J. Hogan , Peter L. Bender

In experiments involving Bose condensed atoms trapped in magnetic bottles, plugging the hole in the bottle potential with a LASER beam produces a new potential with two minima, and thus a condensate order parameter (i.e. wave function) with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juhao Wu , A. Widom

The survival of time-reversal symmetry in the presence of strong multiple scattering lies at the heart of some of the most robust interference effects of light in complex media. Here, the use of time-reversed light paths for imaging in…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jesse Dykes , Zeina Nazer , Allard P. Mosk , Otto L. Muskens

Recently, biased weak measurement(BWM) has shown higher precision than both conventional measurement and standard weak measurement(SWM) in optical metrology. In this paper, we propose a scheme of detecting rotation velocity in Sagnac's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Jing-Hui Huang , Xiang-Yun Hu , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wan

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

A coupling between Earths rotation and orbital angular momentum (OAM), known as the Sagnac effect, is observed in entangled neutrons produced using a spin echo interferometer. After correction for instrument systematics the measured…

We propose and numerically investigate a scalable ring trap for cold atoms that surmounts problems of roughness of the potential and end--effects of trap wires. A stable trapping potential is formed about an electrically isolated,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. F. Griffin , E. Riis , A. S. Arnold

Using a thermal gas, we model the signal of a trapped interferometer. This interferometer uses two short laser pulses, separated by time T, which act as a phase grating for the matter waves. Near time 2T, there is an echo in the cloud's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Eric Imhof , James Stickney , Matthew Squires

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

We present the full evaluation of a cold atom gyroscope based on atom interferometry. We have performed extensive studies to determine the systematic errors, scale factor and sensitivity. We demonstrate that the acceleration noise can be…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Gauguet , Benjamin Canuel , Thomas Lévèque , Walid Chaibi , Arnaud Landragin

We demonstrate a method to generate spatially homogeneous entangled, spin-squeezed states of atoms appropriate for maintaining a large amount of squeezing even after release into the arm of a matter-wave interferometer or other free space…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Kevin C. Cox , Graham P. Greve , Baochen Wu , James K. Thompson

We experimentally demonstrate optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer utilizing displaced Sagnac configuration to enhance its phase stability. The interferometer with footprint of 27x40 cm offers individually accessible paths and shows phase…