Optical Phase Aberration Correction with an Ultracold Quantum Gas
Abstract
We present an optical aberration correction technique for ultracold quantum gas experiments which directly utilizes the quantum gas as a wavefront sensor. The direct use of the quantum gas enables correcting aberrations that are otherwise impractical to measure, e.g. introduced by vacuum windows. We report a root-mean-square precision and accuracy of 0.01{\lambda} and 0.03{\lambda}, respectively, and also show independently the reduction of aberrations through measurement of the trap frequency of our optical tweezer. These improvements were achieved for a tweezer size that is well below our imaging resolution. The present work is in particular intended to serve as a tutorial for experimentalists interested in implementing similar methods in their experiment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.16827,
title = {Optical Phase Aberration Correction with an Ultracold Quantum Gas},
author = {Paul Hill and Philipp Lunt and Johannes Reiter and Maciej Galka and Philipp Preiss and Selim Jochim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16827},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures