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We simulate ultracold Sagnac atom interferometers using quantum-mechanical matter wavepackets, e.g. Bose-Einstein condensates, that counter-propagate within a rotating ring-trap. We find that the accumulation of the relative phase…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 M. C. Kandes , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , M. W. J. Bromley

Here, I discuss some implications of the time-reversal invariance of lossless radiating systems. I highlight that time-reversal symmetry provides a rather intuitive explanation for the conditions of polarization and impedance matching of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Mario G. Silveirinha

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a single-mode fiber length and dispersion measurement system based on a novel frequency-shifted asymmetric Sagnac interferometer incorporating an acousto-optic modulator (AOM). By sweeping the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Qi , Andrew Tausz , Li Qian , Hoi-Kwong Lo

Active optical systems can give rise to intriguing phenomena and applications that are not available in conventional passive systems. Structural rotation has been widely employed to achieve non-reciprocity or time-reversal symmetry…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Hongkang Shi , Zhongfei Xiong , Weijin Chen , Jing Xu , Shubo Wang , Yuntian Chen

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 analyze the advantages of using ultra-cold coherent sources of atoms for matter-wave interferometry in space. We present a proof-of-principle experiment that is based on an analysis of the results previously published in [Richard et al.,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Yann Le Coq , Jocelyn A. Retter , Simon Richard , Alain Aspect , Philippe Bouyer

In both particle and wave descriptions of phonons, the dense, aperiodically arranged interfaces in aperiodic superlattices are expected to strongly attenuate thermal transport due to phonon-interface scattering or broken long-range…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Theodore Maranets , Yan Wang

The observation of the Sagnac effect for massive material particles offers a significant enhancement in sensitivity when compared to optical interferometers with equal area and angular rotation velocity. For this reason, there have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 A. Yu. Fesh , Yu. V. Shtanov , S. G. Sharapov

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 study phase coherent transport in a single channel system using the scattering matrix approach. It is shown that identical vanishing of the transmission amplitude occurs generically in quasi-1D systems if the time-reversal is a good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. -W. Lee

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…

For linear electromagnetic systems possessing time-reversal symmetry, we present an approach to bound ratios of internal fields excited from different ports, using only the scattering matrix (S matrix), improving upon previous related…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Wenchao Ma , Raphaël Pestourie , Steven G. Johnson

We present a set-up dedicated to the measurement of the small scalar directional anisotropies associated to the magnetochiral interaction. The apparatus, based on a polarization-independent fiber Sagnac interferometer, is optimized to be…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Goulc'hen Loas , Mehdi Alouini , Marc Vallet

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…

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

With a Michelson interferometer using a phase-conjugate mirror (PCM) that reverses the uniform phase shift in a light path, we can conduct a first-order experiment of Special Relativity. Utilization of the PCM changes the basic concepts of…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ruyong Wang , Yi Zheng , Aiping Yao

A transfer matrix technique is used to model phase coherent spin transport in the weakly disordered quasi one-dimensional channel of a gate-controlled electron spin interferometer [Datta and Das, Appl. Phys. Lett., 56, 665 (1990)]. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Cahay , S. Bandyopadhyay

We study the Sagnac effect for matter beams, in order to estimate the kinematic corrections to the basic formula, deriving from the position and the extent of the interferometer, and discuss the analogy with the Aharonov-Bohm effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-07 Matteo Luca Ruggiero , Angelo Tartaglia

An essential component of future quantum networks is an optical switch capable of dynamically routing single-photons. Here we implement such a switch, based on a fiber-optical Sagnac interferometer design. The routing is implemented with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 A. Alarcón , P. González , J. Cariñe , G. Lima , G. B. Xavier

We report the experimental realization of a large-area and multi-axis atomtronic interferometer in an optical waveguide for rotation sensing. A large enclosed area is achieved through multi-loop operation in a guided atom interferometer…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Saurabh Pandey , Ceren Uzun , Katarzyna A. Krzyzanowska , Malcolm G. Boshier