Pinning an Ion with an Intracavity Optical Lattice
Atomic Physics
2012-12-11 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report one-dimensional pinning of a single ion by an optical lattice. The lattice potential is produced by a standing-wave cavity along the rf-field-free axis of a linear Paul trap. The ion's localization is detected by measuring its fluorescence when excited by standing-wave fields with the same period, but different spatial phases. The experiments agree with an analytical model of the localization process, which we test against numerical simulations. For the best localization achieved, the ion's average coupling to the cavity field is enhanced from 50% to 81(3)% of its maximum possible value, and we infer that the ion is bound in a lattice well with over 97% probability.
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@article{arxiv.1208.4005,
title = {Pinning an Ion with an Intracavity Optical Lattice},
author = {Rasmus B. Linnet and Ian D. Leroux and Mathieu Marciante and Aurélien Dantan and Michael Drewsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4005},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures; Text edited for clarity, results unchanged