Design and fabrication of diffractive atom chips for laser cooling and trapping
Optics
2016-06-29 v1
Abstract
It has recently been shown that optical reflection gratings fabricated directly into an atom chip provide a simple and effective way to trap and cool substantial clouds of atoms [1,2]. In this article we describe how the gratings are designed and micro-fabricated and we characterise their optical properties, which determine their effectiveness as a cold atom source. We use simple scalar diffraction theory to understand how the morphology of the gratings determines the power in the diffracted beams.
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@article{arxiv.1601.05548,
title = {Design and fabrication of diffractive atom chips for laser cooling and trapping},
author = {J. P. Cotter and J. P. McGilligan and P. F. Griffin and I. M. Rabey and K. Docherty and E. Riis and A. S. Arnold and E. A. Hinds},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05548},
year = {2016}
}