Magneto-optical traps on a chip using micro-fabricated gratings

We have made magneto-optical traps (MOTs) on a chip which is able to cool and trap ~108 atoms directly from a ~1cm3 thermal background of 87Rb. Diffraction gratings are used to manipulate the light from a single input beam to create the beams required for a MOT [1,2]. The gratings are etched into th...

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Main Authors: Nshii, C., Vangeleyn, M., Cotter, J., Griffin, P., Ironside, Charlie, See, P., Sinclair, A., Hinds, E., Riis, E., Arnold, A.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27640