Department of Physics, Stanford University, California 94305, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Sep 23;107(13):130403. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.130403. Epub 2011 Sep 19.
We demonstrate atom interferometers utilizing a novel beam splitter based on sequential multiphoton Bragg diffractions. With this sequential Bragg large momentum transfer (SB-LMT) beam splitter, we achieve high contrast atom interferometers with momentum splittings of up to 102 photon recoil momenta (102ℏk). To our knowledge, this is the highest momentum splitting achieved in any atom interferometer, advancing the state-of-the-art by an order of magnitude. We also demonstrate strong noise correlation between two simultaneous SB-LMT interferometers, which alleviates the need for ultralow noise lasers and ultrastable inertial environments in some future applications. Our method is intrinsically scalable and can be used to dramatically increase the sensitivity of atom interferometers in a wide range of applications, including inertial sensing, measuring the fine structure constant, and detecting gravitational waves.
我们展示了利用基于顺序多光子布喇格衍射的新型分束器的原子干涉仪。通过这种顺序布喇格大动量转移(SB-LMT)分束器,我们实现了具有高达 102 光子反冲动量(102ℏk)的高对比度原子干涉仪。据我们所知,这是在任何原子干涉仪中实现的最高动量分裂,将现有技术提高了一个数量级。我们还演示了两个同时进行的 SB-LMT 干涉仪之间的强噪声相关性,这在某些未来应用中减轻了对超低噪声激光和超稳定惯性环境的需求。我们的方法本质上是可扩展的,可以用于在广泛的应用中显著提高原子干涉仪的灵敏度,包括惯性传感、测量精细结构常数和探测引力波。