Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Single-Shot Absorption Imaging of Ultracold Atoms Using Deep-Neural-Network

Gal Ness, Anastasiya Vainbaum, Constantine Shkedrov, Yanay Florshaim, Yoav Sagi

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate the use of a deep-neural-network to perform absorption imaging of ultracold atoms in a single exposure. The noise in the resulting images is smaller, hence physical observables can be extracted with better accuracy.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.fw4c.7

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