Practical Limits for Large-Momentum-Transfer Clock Atom Interferometers

102ℏk large area atom interferometers.

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 interfero...

Atom Interferometers

Simultaneous Atom Interferometers

We demonstrate phase lock of two > 1.6W Titanium:sapphire lasers with a phase noise of -138 dBc/Hz at 1MHz from the carrier, using an intra-cavity electro-optic phase modulator. The residual phase variance is 2.5 × 10 rad integrated from 1Hz to 10 kHz. Instantaneous offset frequency steps of up to 4MHz are achieved within 200 ns. Simultaneous atom interferometers can make full use of this ultra...

Scaling Laws for Large Momentum Transfer Processes

Dimensional scaling laws are developed as an approach to understanding the energy dependence of high energy scattering processes at fixed center-ofmass angle. Given a reasonable assumption on the short distance behavior of bound states, and the absence of an internal mass scale, we show that at large s and t, do/dt (AB -t CD) Q s -n-i-2 f(t/s); n is the total number of fields in A,B,C and D whi...

Prototyping Method for Bragg Type Atom Interferometers