On-chip optical trapping for atomic applications

Maximillian A. Perez; Evan Salim; Daniel Farkas; Janet Duggan; Megan Ivory; Dana Anderson

doi:10.1117/12.2064311

16 September 2014 On-chip optical trapping for atomic applications

Maximillian A. Perez, Evan Salim, Daniel Farkas, Janet Duggan, Megan Ivory, Dana Anderson

Proceedings Volume 9164, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI; 916407 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2064311
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

To simplify applications that rely on optical trapping of cold and ultracold atoms, ColdQuanta is developing techniques to incorporate miniature optical components onto in-vacuum atom chips. The result is a hybrid atom chip that combines an in-vacuum micro-optical bench for optical control with an atom chip for magnetic control. Placing optical components on a chip inside of the vacuum system produces a compact system that can be targeted to specific experiments, in this case the generation of optical lattices. Applications that can benefit from this technology include timekeeping, inertial sensing, gravimetry, quantum information, and emulation of quantum many-body systems. ColdQuanta’s GlasSi atom chip technology incorporates glass windows in the plane of a silicon atom chip. In conjunction with the in-vacuum micro-optical bench, optical lattices can be generated within a few hundred microns of an atom chip window through which single atomic lattice sites can be imaged with sub-micron spatial resolution. The result is a quantum gas microscope that allows optical lattices to be studied at the level of single lattice sites. Similar to what ColdQuanta has achieved with magneto-optical traps (MOTs) in its miniMOT system and with Bose- Einstein condensates (BECs) in its RuBECi^(R) system, ColdQuanta seeks to apply the on-chip optical bench technology to studies of optical lattices in a commercially available, turnkey system. These techniques are currently being considered for lattice experiments in NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) slated for flight on the International Space Station.

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Maximillian A. Perez, Evan Salim, Daniel Farkas, Janet Duggan, Megan Ivory, and Dana Anderson "On-chip optical trapping for atomic applications", Proc. SPIE 9164, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, 916407 (16 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2064311

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