Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30498v1
• Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 19:27:31 GMT
• Title: Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping
• Abstract summary: We review optical metasurfaces as an enabling technology that provides fine control over the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light.<n>The flexibility and scalability of optical metasurfaces provides a route towards miniaturized, integrated, and highly scalable atomic experiments and instruments.
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• Abstract: Trapped neutral atoms are one of the leading platforms for quantum information technologies, in particular for quantum computing, but scaling them to array sizes needed for utility-scale quantum computing is a major engineering challenge. Here we review optical metasurfaces as an enabling technology that provides fine control over the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light, with pixel counts far exceeding what is available with spatial light modulators (SLMs) and other active devices. The large pixel counts have recently led to demonstrations of arrays of optical tweezers with hundreds of thousands of sites and arrays of optical bottle-beams with complex three-dimensional trapping profiles. The flexibility and scalability of optical metasurfaces provides a route towards miniaturized, integrated, and highly scalable atomic experiments and instruments.

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