An on-chip optical lattice for cold atom experiments
Quantum Gases
2015-07-15 v1 Atomic Physics
Optics
Abstract
An atom-chip-based integrated optical lattice system for cold and ultracold atom applications is presented. The retro-reflection optics necessary for forming the lattice are bonded directly to the atom chip, enabling a compact and robust on-chip optical lattice system. After achieving Bose-Einstein condensation in a magnetic chip trap, we load atoms directly into a vertically oriented 1D optical lattice and demonstrate Landau-Zener tunneling. The atom chip technology presented here can be readily extended to higher dimensional optical lattices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1506.08728,
title = {An on-chip optical lattice for cold atom experiments},
author = {Cameron J. E. Straatsma and Megan K. Ivory and Janet Duggan and Jaime Ramirez-Serrano and Dana Z. Anderson and Evan A. Salim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08728},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Optics Letters