Trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates in a three-dimensional dark focus generated by conical refraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02425v2
• Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 16:40:12 GMT
• Title: Trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates in a three-dimensional dark focus generated by conical refraction
• Authors: D. Pfeiffer, L. Lind, J. K\"uber, F. Schmaltz, A. Turpin, V. Ahufinger, J. Mompart, G. Birkl
• Abstract summary: We present an efficient three-dimensional dark-focus optical trapping potential for neutral atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates. The "optical bottle" is created by a single blue-detuned light field exploiting the phenomenon of conical refraction occurring in biaxial crystals.
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• Abstract: We present an efficient three-dimensional dark-focus optical trapping potential for neutral atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates. This "optical bottle" is created by a single blue-detuned light field exploiting the phenomenon of conical refraction occurring in biaxial crystals. The conversion of a Gaussian input beam to the bottle beam has an efficiency of close to 100 % and the optical setup requires the addition of the biaxial crystal and a circular polarizer only. Based on the conical-refraction theory, we derive the general form of the potential, the trapping frequencies, and the potential barrier heights. We present experiments on confining a $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate in three dimensions. We determine the trap shape, the vibrational frequencies along the weak axis, as well as the lifetime of ultracold atoms in this type of potential.

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