Title :
Splitting of trapped thermal atoms for atom-chip based interferometry
Author :
Ammar, Moataz ; Huet, L. ; Esteve, J. ; Westbrook, C. ; Bouchoule, I. ; Pocholle, J.-P. ; Reichel, Jakob ; Rosenbusch, P. ; Guerlin, C. ; Schwartz, S.
Author_Institution :
Thales Res. & Technol., Palaiseau, France
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We present a design of an atom interferometer using thermal atoms trapped on a chip. We point-out that such an interferometer requires highly symmetrical potentials, and we propose a splitter based on microwave potentials with two coplanar waveguides to achieve this goal.
Keywords :
microwave photonics; optical beam splitters; optical design techniques; optical planar waveguides; particle interferometry; radiation pressure; atom-chip based interferometry; coplanar waveguides; microwave potentials; splitter; symmetrical potentials; trapped thermal atom splitting; Atomic beams; Atomic clocks; Atomic measurements; Coplanar waveguides; Magnetostatic waves; Magnetostatics; Microwave theory and techniques;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600078
