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Metasurfaces That Enable Bottle-Beam Arrays for Neutral Atom Trapping

Chengyu Fang, Minjeong Kim, David A. Czaplewski, Hongyan Mei, Sanket Deshpande, Zhaoning Yu, Yuzhe Xiao, Xuting Yang, Alan Dibos, Mark E. Saffman, Jennifer T. Choy, Mikhail A. Kats

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report optical metasurfaces that enable bottle-beam arrays for blue-detuned trapping of neutral atoms. Our approach only requires a single metasurface which significantly reduces the complexity of the trapping experiments.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2024.sth1f.3

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