Semiclassical Phase Analysis for a Trapped-Atom Sagnac Interferometer
Semiclassical Phase Analysis for a Trapped-Atom Sagnac Interferometer
A Sagnac atom interferometer can be constructed using a BoseāEinstein condensate trapped in a cylindrically symmetric harmonic potential. Using the Bragg interaction with a set of laser beams, the atoms can be launched into circular orbits, with two counterpropagating interferometers allowing many sources of common-mode noise to be excluded. In ā¦