A scalable optical detection scheme for matter wave interferometry
- Author(s)
- Alexander Stibor, André Stefanov, Fabienne Goldfarb, Elisabeth Reiger, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
Imaging of surface adsorbed molecules is investigated as a novel detection method for matter wave interferometry with fluorescent particles. Mechanically magnified fluorescence imaging turns out to be an excellent tool for recording quantum interference patterns. It has a good sensitivity and yields patterns of high visibility. The spatial resolution of this technique is only determined by the Talbot gratings and can exceed the optical resolution limit by an order of magnitude. A unique advantage of this approach is its scalability: for certain classes of nano-sized objects, the detection sensitivity will even increase significantly with increasing size of the particle. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- Organisation(s)
- Journal
- New Journal of Physics
- Volume
- 7
- No. of pages
- 10
- ISSN
- 1367-2630
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/224
- Publication date
- 2005
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/a-scalable-optical-detection-scheme-for-matter-wave-interferometry(0e359c1b-f71f-4065-b63c-8e0262b41f6c).html