Design and fabrication of diffractive atom chips for laser cooling and trapping

Cotter, J. P. and McGilligan, J. P. and Griffin, P. F. and Rabey, I. M. and Docherty, K. and Riis, E. and Arnold, A. S. and Hinds, E. A. (2016) Design and fabrication of diffractive atom chips for laser cooling and trapping. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 122. ISSN 0946-2171 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6415-y)

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Abstract

It has recently been shown that optical reflection gratings fabricated directly into an atom chip provide a simple and effective way to trap and cool substantial clouds of atoms [1,2]. In this article we describe how the gratings are designed and micro-fabricated and we characterise their optical properties, which determine their effectiveness as a cold atom source. We use simple scalar diffraction theory to understand how the morphology of the gratings determines the power in the diffracted beams.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:56595
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 June 2016
    Published
    11 April 2016
    Accepted
    21 January 2016
    Submitted
    Notes:The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6415-y
    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:03 Jun 2016 11:38
    Last modified:11 Apr 2024 01:00
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56595
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