Atom Interferomery at MIT

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Our goal is to pioneer new measurement techniques by using coherent atom optics, such as beam-splitters, mirrors and lenses which manipulate matter waves.  We operate one of the world's first atom-beam interferometers.  It is a Mach-Zhender optical interferometer that splits deBroglie waves of matter, not light, into two physically separate paths, and later combines the waves to produce interference fringes of matter in space. 

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AAMOP article:  Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules 


Principle Investigator: David E. Pritchard


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