Single atoms in a standing-wave dipole trap

Alt, W and Schrader, D and Kuhr, S and Muller, M and Gomer, V and Meschede, D (2003) Single atoms in a standing-wave dipole trap. Physical Review A, 67 (3). 033403. ISSN 1050-2947 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.033403)

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Abstract

We trap a single cesium atom in a standing-wave optical dipole trap. Special experimental procedures, designed to work with single atoms, are used to measure the oscillation frequency and the atomic energy distribution in the dipole trap. These methods rely on unambiguously detecting presence or loss of the atom using its resonance fluorescence in the magneto-optical trap.