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Interference is a powerful tool for measuring and control. In M\"ossbauer science, interference effects are essential to most applications, due to the coherent scattering nature. However, M\"ossbauer interferometry remains challenging, due…

We demonstrate an optomechanical phase shifter. By electrostatically deflecting the nanofabricated mechanical structure, the effective index of a nearby waveguide is changed and the resulting phase shift is measured using an integrated…

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Neutron interferometry enables precision measurements that are typically operated within elaborate, multi-layered facilities which provide substantial shielding from environmental noise. These facilities are necessary to maintain the…

Interferometers play an increasingly important role for spatially resolved observations. If employed at full potential, interferometry can probe an enormous dynamic range in spatial scale. Interpretation of the observed visibilities…

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We propose a scheme to significantly enhance the sensitivity of atom-interferometry performed with Bose-Einstein condensates. When a two-photon Raman transition is used to split the condensate into two modes, some information about the…

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Neutrons have emerged as a unique probe at the forefront of modern material science, unrivaled in their penetrating abilities. A major challenge stems from the fact that neutron optical devices are limited to refractive indices on the order…

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For a generic interferometer, the conditional probability density distribution, $p(\phi|m)$, for the phase $\phi$ given measurement outcome $m$, will generally have multiple peaks. Therefore, the phase sensitivity of an interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas B. Bahder , Paul A. Lopata

The development of novel radio frequency atomic receivers brings attention to the theoretical description of atom-light interactions in sophisticated, multilevel schemes. Of special interest, are the schemes where several interaction paths…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Bartosz Kasza , Sebastian Borówka , Wojciech Wasilewski , Michał Parniak

Interferometric observations with three telescopes or more provide two observables: closure phase information together with visibilities measurements. When using single-mode interferometers, both observables have to be redefined in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Tatulli , A. Chelli

We present experiments measuring an interaction induced phase shift of Rydberg atoms at Stark tuned F\"orster resonances. The phase shift features a dispersive shape around the resonance, showing that the interaction strength and sign can…

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A long-held vision has been to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, and reveal interacting gas flows in binary systems. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec , Paul D. Nuñez

Intensity interferometry removes the stringent requirements on mechanical precision and atmospheric corrections that plague all amplitude interferometry techniques at the cost of severely limited sensitivity. A new idea we recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aviv Ofir , Erez N. Ribak

A new type of polarization sensitive interferometer is proposed, which is named as Delta interferometer due to the geometry of the simplest interferometer looks like Greek letter, Delta. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time…

In this paper we compare the performance of multi and single-mode interferometry for the estimation of the phase of the complex visibility. We provide a theoretical description of the interferometric signal which enables to derive the phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Tatulli , N. Blind , J. P. Berger , A. Chelli , F. Malbet

We demonstrate a 2-grating free electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a transmission electron microscope. A symmetric binary phase grating and condenser lens system forms two spatially separated, focused probes at the sample…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-13 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , Benjamin J. McMorran

We demonstrate a high performance AOM based bi-frequency interferometer, which can realize either beating or beating free interference for single photon level quantum state. Visibility and optical efficiency of the interferometer are (99.5…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Wenqi Li , Qiqi Deng , Xueshi Guo , Xiaoying Li

We report the first successful operation of a neutron interferometer having a separate beam recombining crystal. We achieved this result at the neutron interferometry setup S18 at the ILL in Grenoble by a collaboration between TU Wien, ILL…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-29 Hartmut Lemmel , Michael Jentschel , Hartmut Abele , Fabien Lafont , Bruno Guerard , Carlo P. Sasso , Giovanni Mana , Enrico Massa

We present a setup to perform sub shot noise measurements of the phase quadrature for intense pulsed light without the use of a separate local oscillator. A Mach--Zehnder interferometer with an unbalanced arm length is used to detect the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Glöckl , U. L. Andersen , S. Lorenz , Ch. Silberhorn , N. Korolkova , G. Leuchs

Nonlinear optics experiments measuring phase shifts induced in a weak probe pulse by a strong pump pulse must account for coherent effects that only occur when the pump and probe pulses are temporally overlapped. It is well known that a…

Interferometric photon-correlation measurements, which correspond to the second-order intensity cross-correlations between the two output ports of an unbalanced Michelson interferometer, are sensitive to both amplitude and phase…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Lebreton , I. Abram , R. Braive , I. Sagnes , I. Robert-Philip , A. Beveratos