Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Meta-Holograms for Optical Trapping of Cold Atoms

Xiaoyan Huang, Weijun Yuan, Sebastian Will, Nanfang Yu

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose metasurface holograms as a platform to efficiently and faithfully generate designer optical traps for cold atoms.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.fm4d.4

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