Specular mirror interferometer

authored by
Fabio Di Pumpo, Alexander Friedrich, Enno Giese, Albert Roura, Hartmut Lemmel, Daniel M. Greenberger, Ernst M. Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich
Abstract

We propose an atom interferometer with a nonvanishing proper time difference by combining two optical Bragg gratings serving as the two beam splitters at the entrance and the exit of the interferometer, with two strongly detuned evanescent fields providing the two mirrors in the middle. With the help of an operator approach we determine the phase shift between the two arms and compare and contrast it with the familiar Mach–Zehnder interferometer as introduced by Kasevich and Chu which shows no proper time difference.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Quantum Optics
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)
External Organisation(s)
Ulm University
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
TU Wien (TUW)
City University of New York
Texas A and M University
Type
Contribution to book/anthology
Pages
173-229
No. of pages
57
Publication date
2020
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.po.2019.11.006 (Access: Closed)