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Atom interferometry inside an optical cavity was demonstrated in Hamilton et al. (Phys Rev Lett 114:100405, 2015 [1]), where they show a \(\pi /2-\pi -\pi /2\) interferometer with caesium atoms loaded horizontally into a vertical 40 cm cavity (Fig. 6.1). In this proof of principle experiment, the small cavity mode volume placed a tight constraint on the total measurement time, which was just 20 ms.
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Note that the indices n and m used here refer to the order of the optical transverse mode, and not the electronic or momentum states of the atom n and m or the Bragg diffraction order m. It is assumed that the reader can infer the meaning of n and m from the context.
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Álvarez, M.D. (2019). Fundamental Limitations of Cavity-Assisted Atom Interferometry. In: Optical Cavities for Optical Atomic Clocks, Atom Interferometry and Gravitational-Wave Detection. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20863-9_6
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