Alex Sugarbaker, Susannah M. Dickerson, Jason M. Hogan, David M. S. Johnson, Mark A. Kasevich
We present a method for determining the phase and contrast of a single shot of an atom interferometer. The application of a phase shear across the atom ensemble yields a spatially varying fringe pattern at each output port, which can be imaged directly. This method is broadly relevant to atom interferometric precision measurement, as we demonstrate in a 10 m Rb-87 atomic fountain by implementing an atom interferometric gyrocompass with 10 millidegree precision.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3298
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