Grover-Sagnac interferometer

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Main Authors: Schwarze, Christopher R., Manni, Anthony D., Simon, David S., Ndao, Abdoulaye, Sergienko, Alexander V.
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Published: 2025
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author Schwarze, Christopher R.
Manni, Anthony D.
Simon, David S.
Ndao, Abdoulaye
Sergienko, Alexander V.
author_facet Schwarze, Christopher R.
Manni, Anthony D.
Simon, David S.
Ndao, Abdoulaye
Sergienko, Alexander V.
contents We demonstrate a nontraditional design of the Sagnac interferometer by replacing the commonly used beam splitter with a linear-optical Grover multiport. This substitution creates a pole at the origin of the device parameter space with an associated resonance in the output intensity. The structure of this resonance is dictated only by the non-reciprocal portion of the phase acquired in the Sagnac loop. This property directly results from adopting the more symmetric and higher-dimensional central scattering coin, and allows for a different approach to registering and detecting the non-reciprocal Sagnac phase. This parameter may be extracted from the width of a peak or dip in the interferogram instead of tracing small changes in power as in traditional Sagnac interferometry. We discuss how losses affect the system and potential metrological applications.
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spellingShingle Grover-Sagnac interferometer
Schwarze, Christopher R.
Manni, Anthony D.
Simon, David S.
Ndao, Abdoulaye
Sergienko, Alexander V.
Optics
We demonstrate a nontraditional design of the Sagnac interferometer by replacing the commonly used beam splitter with a linear-optical Grover multiport. This substitution creates a pole at the origin of the device parameter space with an associated resonance in the output intensity. The structure of this resonance is dictated only by the non-reciprocal portion of the phase acquired in the Sagnac loop. This property directly results from adopting the more symmetric and higher-dimensional central scattering coin, and allows for a different approach to registering and detecting the non-reciprocal Sagnac phase. This parameter may be extracted from the width of a peak or dip in the interferogram instead of tracing small changes in power as in traditional Sagnac interferometry. We discuss how losses affect the system and potential metrological applications.
title Grover-Sagnac interferometer
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14049