Quantum Rotation Sensing with Dual Sagnac Interferometers in an Atom-Optical Waveguide
Quantum Rotation Sensing with Dual Sagnac Interferometers in an Atom-Optical Waveguide
We describe a Sagnac interferometer suitable for rotation sensing, implemented using an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic magnetic trap. The atom wave packets are split and recombined by standing-wave Bragg lasers, and the trapping potential steers the packets along circular trajectories with a radius of 0.2 mm. Two …