Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Towards a scalable dipole-trapping scheme for neutral atoms

Lukas Brandt, Cecilia Muldoon, Edouard Brainis, Axel Kuhn

Published May 1, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

We present a new scheme for trapping single atoms in separate dipole-traps and manipulating them individually. It relies on a spatial light-modulator to create the traps and will find applications in cavity-QED.

DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2008.4551977

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