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Rapid multi-mode trapped-ion laser cooling in a phase-stable standing wave

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10900v1
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:28:07 GMT
Title: Rapid multi-mode trapped-ion laser cooling in a phase-stable standing wave
Authors: Zhenzhong Xing, Hamim Mahmud Rivy, Vighnesh Natarajan, Aditya Milind Kolhatkar, Gillenhaal Beck, Karan K. Mehta,
Abstract summary: Integrated optical control of interest for scaling may enable increased performance of coherent and incoherent operations.<n>We utilize multi-channel integrated delivery of ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths required for calcium ion control.<n>We experimentally verify a long-standing prediction, realizing Doppler cooling to below the conventional Doppler limit.
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Abstract: Laser cooling is fundamental to precise control and interrogation of atomic quantum systems. In the context of quantum computing and metrology with trapped ions, the integrated optical control of interest for scaling may additionally enable increased performance of coherent and incoherent operations. Here we utilize multi-channel integrated delivery of ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths required for calcium ion control including in passively phase-stable ultraviolet standing waves to demonstrate rapid, broadband laser cooling. We experimentally verify a long-standing prediction, realizing Doppler cooling to below the conventional Doppler limit at a standing-wave (SW) node. Utilizing electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), we experimentally cool motional modes spanning an approximately 5 MHz bandwidth from the Doppler temperature to near the ground state within 150 $μ$s, reaching $\bar n \approx 0.05$ phonon number occupancies for the target mode. Direct evaluation against the comparable running-wave (RW) scheme shows the SW implementation's simultaneous advantage in cooling rate, motional mode bandwidth, and final phonon number as previously theoretically predicted. Our results demonstrate structured light's capability for robust ground-state laser cooling, and a clear advantage in a fundamental functionality enabled by scalable approaches to optical control.

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