Trapped, laser-cooled rubidium atoms are transferred between two strongly focused, horizontal, orthogonally intersecting laser beams. The transfer efficiency is studied as a function of the vertical distance between the beam axes. Optimum transfer is found when the distance equals the beam waist radius. Numerical simulations reproduce well the experimental results.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0606018,
title = {Transfer of trapped atoms between two optical tweezer potentials},
author = {Matthias Schulz and Herbert Crepaz and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler and Juergen Eschner and Rainer Blatt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0606018},
year = {2009}
}