An optical elevator for precise delivery of cold atoms using an acousto-optical deflector

Ferri, Francesco and La Rooij, Arthur and Lebouteiller, Claire and Bourdel, Pierre-Antoine and Baghdad, Mohamed and Schwartz, Sylvain and Garcia, Sébastien and Reichel, Jakob and Long, Romain (2022) An optical elevator for precise delivery of cold atoms using an acousto-optical deflector. New Journal of Physics, 24 (4). 043013. ISSN 1367-2630 (https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac5f84)

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Abstract

We implement a simple method for fast and precise delivery of ultracold atoms to a microscopic device, ie a Fabry–Perot microcavity. By moving a single beam optical dipole trap in a direction perpendicular to the beam axis with an acousto-optical deflector, we transport up to 1 million atoms within 100 ms over 1 cm. Under these conditions, a transport efficiency above 95% is achieved with only minimal heating. The atomic cloud is accurately positioned within the microcavity and transferred into an intra-cavity optical lattice. With the addition of a secondary guiding beam, we show how residual sloshing motion along the shallow axis of the trap can be minimized.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:81367
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    7 April 2022
    Published
    21 March 2022
    Accepted
    4 January 2022
    Submitted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:06 Jul 2022 13:33
    Last modified:09 Apr 2024 03:21
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/81367
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