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We report on a study of the long-term stability and absolute accuracy of an atom interferometer gyroscope. This study included the implementation of an electro-optical technique to reverse the vector area of the interferometer for reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. S. Durfee , Y. K. Shaham , M. A. Kasevich

We use a Sagnac interferometer to measure the dispersive and absorptive properties of room temperature Rubidium vapor on the D_2 line at 780.2 nm. We apply a pump beam such that the resulting Lambda system exhibits Electromagnetically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Graham T. Purves , Charles S. Adams , Ifan G. Hughes

The phase shift due to the Sagnac Effect, for relativistic matter and electromagnetic beams, counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, is deduced using two different approaches. From one hand, we show that the relativistic law of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guido Rizzi , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We reanalyzed our atom interferometer measurement of the electric polarizability of lithium now accounting for the Sagnac effect due to Earth rotation. The resulting correction to the polarizability is very small but the visibility as a…

The capability of optical resonators to extend the effective radiation-matter interaction length originates from a multipass effect, hence is intrinsically limited by the resonator quality factor. Here, we show that this constraint can be…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-05 P. Malara , C. E. Campanella , A. Giorgini , S. Avino , P. De Natale , G. Gagliardi

We study the single-photon frequency conversion of a five-level emitter coupled to a Sagnac interferometer. We show that the unity conversion efficiency can be achieved either in resonance or off-resonance case under the ideal condition. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Wei-Bin Yan , Jin-Feng Huang , Heng Fan

The advent of novel nonlinear materials has stirred unprecedented interest in exploring the use of temporal inhomogeneities to achieve novel forms of wave control, amidst the greater vision of engineering metamaterials across both space and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-24 Emanuele Galiffi , Shixiong Yin , Andrea Alù

We combine matter-wave interferometry and cavity optomechanics to propose a coherent matter--light interface based on mechanical motion at the quantum level. We demonstrate a mechanism that is able to transfer non-classical features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 André Xuereb , Hendrik Ulbricht , Mauro Paternostro

The sensitivity of laser interferometers can be pushed into regimes that enable the direct observation of quantum behaviour of mechanical oscillators. In the past, membranes with subwavelength thickness (thin films) have been proposed as…

We demonstrate Fano-like resonances in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowire-based coupled Sagnac interferometers (SIs) formed by a self-coupled waveguide. By adjusting the reflectivity of the two SIs and coupling strength between them, we…

Based only on the Galilean addition of velocities and the de Broglie relation, it is deduced that in a matter-wave interferometer with slow-speed particles, a moving segment of deltaL with a velocity V contributes deltaPhi =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-10 Ruyong Wang , Yi Zheng , Aiping Yao

Recently, our group has demonstrated an ultrafast, low-loss, fiber-loop switch based on a nonlinear Sagnac-interferometer design, using which entangled photons were shown to be routed without any measurable degradation in their entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yu-Ping Huang , Prem Kumar

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

Ultrahigh nonreciprocal transmission has been achieved in a cavity-magnon system, which consists of two whispering gallery modes (WGMs) and a single magnon mode within a magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet sphere. The nonreciprocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Zhe-Qi Yang , Si-Qi Lin , Zhi-Rong Zhong

We demonstrate in open microcavities with broken chiral symmetry, quasi-degenerate pairs of co-propagating modes in a non-rotating cavity evolve to counter-propagating modes with rotation. The emission patterns change dramatically by…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-09 Raktim Sarma , Li Ge , Jan Wiersig , Hui Cao

The ring interferometer with zero optical path difference known as Sagnac one is offered with a diffraction splitting of the entering light beam. As the beamsplitter, a transmission holographic Bragg grating is used. Conditions of normal…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 E. A. Tikhonov , A. K. Lyamets

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

Nonreciprocity is an important scientific concept related to the broken symmetry of light propagation through a system in forward and reverse directions. This effect lies in the origin of various applications including signal processing,…

Optical phase measurements play a key role in the detection of macroscopic parameters such as position, velocity, and displacement. They also permit to qualify the microscopic properties of photonic waveguides such as polarization mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Romain Dalidet , Laurent Labonté , Gregory Sauder , Sébastien Tanzilli , Anthony Martin

An all-fibre source of amplitude squeezed solitons utilizing the self-phase modulation in an asymmetric Sagnac interferometer is experimentally demonstrated. The asymmetry of the interferometer is passively controlled by an integrated fibre…