Atom interferometer gyroscope with spin-dependent phase shifts induced by light near a tune-out wavelength

Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Apr 10;114(14):140404. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.140404. Epub 2015 Apr 9.

Abstract

Tune-out wavelengths measured with an atom interferometer are sensitive to laboratory rotation rates because of the Sagnac effect, vector polarizability, and dispersion compensation. We observed shifts in measured tune-out wavelengths as large as 213 pm with a potassium atom beam interferometer, and we explore how these shifts can be used for an atom interferometer gyroscope.