KEYWORDS: Laser systems engineering, Beam splitters, Phase shifts, Interferometers, Chemical species, Laser optics, Phase measurement, High power lasers, Electromagnetism
Light-pulse atom interferometers are excellent probes for studying gravitational interactions in quantum systems. The characteristics of the atom optics lasers are often essential in determining the performance of an atom interferometer. Here we have built a high-power laser system that enables Stark-shift-compensated dual beam splitters. Technical details of the laser system will be discussed. The second part will focus on the observation of a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect. When operating the interferometer with a source mass in a nonlocal regime, we identify the non-zero action-induced phase shift, deviating from that induced by deflections, as the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm phase shift.
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