Single atom trapping in a metasurface lens optical tweezer
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11559v2
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 07:16:53 GMT
- Title: Single atom trapping in a metasurface lens optical tweezer
- Authors: Ting-Wei Hsu, Wenqi Zhu, Tobias Thiele, Mark O. Brown, Scott B. Papp,
Amit Agrawal, Cindy A. Regal
- Abstract summary: In this work, we demonstrate that an efficient dielectric metasurface lens can be used to trap and image single neutral atoms with a long working distance from the lens of 3 mm.
We characterize the high-numerical-aperture optical tweezers using the trapped atoms and compare with numerical computations of the metasurface lens performance.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: Optical metasurfaces of subwavelength pillars have provided new capabilities
for the versatile definition of the amplitude, phase, and polarization of
light. In this work, we demonstrate that an efficient dielectric metasurface
lens can be used to trap and image single neutral atoms with a long working
distance from the lens of 3 mm. We characterize the high-numerical-aperture
optical tweezers using the trapped atoms and compare with numerical
computations of the metasurface lens performance. We predict that future
metasurfaces for atom trapping will be able to leverage multiple ongoing
developments in metasurface design and enable multifunctional control in
complex quantum information experiments with neutral-atoms arrays.
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