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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Deterministic single-atom array preparation using dynamic holographic optical tweezers

Hyosub Kim, Woojun Lee, Jaewook Ahn

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a new method to load N=20 single-atoms near-deterministically (90% for 3-by-3 square and 80% for N=19 ring lattice) in 2D lattices, using dynamic holographic optical tweezers implemented with a 2D liquid-crystal spatial-light modulator.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.ftu3e.8

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