Integrated magneto-optical traps on a chip using silicon pyramid structures

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14109-14114

  Pollock, S ^a   Cotter, J P ^a   Laliotis, A ^a   Hinds, E A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON WAFERS;

ATOM CHIPS; ATOM SOURCES; ATOM TRAPPING; MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAPS; PHOTON SOURCES; PYRAMID STRUCTURE; SINGLE ATOMS;

ATOMS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 68349148225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014109     Document Type: Article

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