Optical Ramsey spectroscopy in a rotating frame: Sagnac effect in a matter-wave interferometer

F. Riehle, Th. Kisters, A. Witte, J. Helmcke, and Ch. J. Bordé
Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 177 – Published 8 July 1991
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Abstract

A calcium atomic beam excited in an optical Ramsey geometry was rotated about an axis perpendicular to the plane defined by the laser beams and the atomic beam. A frequency shift of the Ramsey fringes of several kHz has been measured which is proportional to the rotation frequency of the apparatus and to the distance between the laser beams. The results can be interpreted in three equivalent ways as the Sagnac effect in a calcium-atomic-beam interferometer: in the rotating frame of the laser beams either along straight paths or along the curved trajectories of the atoms, or in the inertial atomic frame.

  • Received 5 April 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.177

©1991 American Physical Society

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F. Riehle, Th. Kisters, A. Witte, and J. Helmcke

  • Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, D-3300 Braunschweig, Germany

Ch. J. Bordé

  • Institut Henri Poincaré, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
  • Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Université Paris(enNord, Villetaneuse, France

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Vol. 67, Iss. 2 — 8 July 1991

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