A Dielectric Metasurface Optical Chip for the Generation of Cold Atoms
Abstract
Compact and robust cold atom sources are increasingly important for quantum research, especially for transferring cutting-edge quantum science into practical applications. In this letter, we report on a novel scheme that utilizes a metasurface optical chip to replace the conventional bulky optical elements used to produce a cold atomic ensemble with a single incident laser beam, which is split by the metasurface into multiple beams of the desired polarization states. Atom numbers and temperatures (about 35 K) of relevance to quantum sensing are achieved in a compact and robust fashion. Our work highlights the substantial progress towards fully integrated cold atom quantum devices by exploiting metasurface optical chips, which may have great potential in quantum sensing, quantum computing and other areas.
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@article{arxiv.2008.01356,
title = {A Dielectric Metasurface Optical Chip for the Generation of Cold Atoms},
author = {Lingxiao Zhu and Xuan Liu and Basudeb Sain and Mengyao Wang and Christian Schlickriede and Yutao Tang and Junhong Deng and Kingfai Li and Jun Yang and Michael Holynski and Shuang Zhang and Thomas Zentgraf and Kai Bongs and Yu-Hung Lien and Guixin Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.01356},
year = {2020}
}