Towards cryogenic dual-species tweezer arrays

We have developed a dual-species optical tweezer array apparatus combining $^{87}\text{Rb}$ and $^{174}\text{Yb}$ atoms with a permanent hybrid Twyman-Green--Fizeau interferometer, which provides precision co-alignment of two opposing 0.6-numerical aperture (NA) objectives and the high NA beams that pass through the system. This technique is extensible to other tweezer platforms operating at high numerical aperture across widely-separated wavelengths. Here we present simultaneous trapping and single-site resolved imaging of both species in co-aligned tweezer arrays with $^{87}\text{Rb}$ confined at $840\ \rm{nm}$ and $^{174}\text{Yb}$ at $532\ \rm{nm}$ . The platform provides a foundation for hybrid quantum register operation, including mid-circuit measurements and asymmetric intra- and inter-species interactions, greatly expanding the capabilities of neutral atom arrays.We have developed a dual-species optical tweezer array apparatus combining $^{87}\text{Rb}$ and $^{174}\text{Yb}$ atoms with a permanent hybrid Twyman-Green--Fizeau interferometer, which provides precision co-alignment of two opposing 0.6-numerical aperture (NA) objectives and the high NA beams that pass through the system. This technique is extensible to other tweezer platforms operating at high numerical aperture across widely-separated wavelengths. Here we present simultaneous trapping and single-site resolved imaging of both species in co-aligned tweezer arrays with $^{87}\text{Rb}$ confined at $840\ \rm{nm}$ and $^{174}\text{Yb}$ at $532\ \rm{nm}$. The platform provides a foundation for hybrid quantum register operation, including mid-circuit measurements and asymmetric intra- and inter-species interactions, greatly expanding the capabilities of neutral atom arrays.

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We have developed a dual-species optical tweezer array apparatus combining

^{87}\text{Rb}

and

^{174}\text{Yb}

atoms with a permanent hybrid Twyman-Green--Fizeau interferometer, which provides precision co-alignment of two opposing 0.6-numerical aperture (NA) objectives and the high NA beams that pass through the system. This technique is extensible to other tweezer platforms operating at high numerical aperture across widely-separated wavelengths. Here we present simultaneous trapping and single-site resolved imaging of both species in co-aligned tweezer arrays with

^{87}\text{Rb}

confined at

840\ \rm{nm}

and

^{174}\text{Yb}

532\ \rm{nm}

. The platform provides a foundation for hybrid quantum register operation, including mid-circuit measurements and asymmetric intra- and inter-species interactions, greatly expanding the capabilities of neutral atom arrays.