High efficient loading of two atoms into a microscopic optical trap by dynamically reshaping the trap with a spatial light modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13586-13592

  He, Xiaodong ^a,b,c   Xu, Peng ^a,b,c   Wang, Jin ^a,b   Zhan, Mingsheng ^a,b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ATOMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; RUBIDIUM;

DIPOLE TRAPS; GAUSSIANS; OPTICAL RINGS; OPTICAL TRAP; SINGLE LASERS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TRAPPED ATOMS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

RUBIDIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FLUORESCENCE; HOLOGRAPHY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 77953835412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013586     Document Type: Article

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