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We report on the realization of a platform for trapping and manipulating individual $^{88}$Sr atoms in optical tweezers. A first cooling stage based on a blue shielded magneto-optical trap (MOT) operating on the $^1S_0$ -> $^1P_1$…

We describe a simple and compact experimental setup for optical tweezer arrays of 87Rb atoms. This setup includes a compact vacuum system, a single cooling laser, a simple tweezer laser, and a flexible control system. The small vacuum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-15 Xue Zhao , Xiao Wang , Wentao Yang , Xiaoyu Dai , Yirong Wang , Guangren Sun , Fangshi Jia , Kuiyi Gao , Wei Zhang

Polyatomic molecules have rich structural features that make them uniquely suited to applications in quantum information science, quantum simulation, ultracold chemistry, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, a key…

In this work, we present the experimental optical trap of microparticles with an Airy beams array using a holographic optical tweezers. The Airy beams array are attractive for optical manipulation of particles owing to their…

Sorting atoms stochastically loaded in optical tweezer arrays via an auxiliary mobile tweezer is an efficient approach to preparing intermediate-scale defect-free atom arrays in arbitrary geometries. However, high filling fraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Cheng Sheng , Jiayi Hou , Xiaodong He , Peng Xu , Kunpeng Wang , Jun Zhuang , Xiao Li , Min Liu , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

Optical tweezers have been widely used for optical manipulation of various particles. At present, there are different type of optical tweezers. Among them, holographic optical tweezers have attracted growing attention as a powerful tools…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Yida Song , Zhengshu Zhang , Yi Shen , Xionggui Tang

We report the preparation and observation of single atoms of dysprosium in arrays of optical tweezers with a wavelength of 532 nm imaged on the intercombination line at 626 nm. We use the anisotropic light shift specific to lanthanides and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Damien Bloch , Britton Hofer , Sam R. Cohen , Antoine Browaeys , Igor Ferrier-Barbut

Recently, acoustic tweezers based on an array of ultrasonic transducers have been reported taking inspiration from holographic optical tweezers. In the latter technique, the calibration of the optical trap is an essential procedure to…

We present the first successful trapping of single erbium atoms in an array of optical tweezers. Using a single narrow-line optical transition, we achieve deep cooling for direct tweezer loading, pairwise ejection, and continous imaging…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 D. S. Grün , S. J. M. White , A. Ortu , A. Di Carli , H. Edri , M. Lepers , M. J. Mark , F. Ferlaino

Current optical atomic clocks do not utilize their resources optimally. In particular, an exponential gain in sensitivity could be achieved if multiple atomic ensembles were to be controlled or read-out individually, even without…

The homography matrix is a key component in various vision-based robotic tasks. Traditionally, homography estimation algorithms are classified into feature- or intensity-based. The main advantages of the latter are their versatility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Lucas Nogueira , Ely C. de Paiva , Geraldo Silvera

Holographic optical tweezers use computer-generated holograms to create arbitrary three-dimensional configurations of single-beam optical traps useful for capturing, moving and transforming mesoscopic objects. Through a combination of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 David G. Grier , Yael Roichman

Arrays of optical tweezers form the backbone of neutral atoms analog and digital quantum processors. However, the inter-trap distance remains generally much larger than the size of the tweezers to avoid interference-induced trap…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Kelvin Lim , Vincent Mancois , Haijun Wu , Yijie Shen , David Wilkowski

Neutral atom quantum computing's great scaling potential has resulted in it emerging as a popular modality in recent years. For state preparation, atoms are loaded stochastically and have to be detected and rearranged at runtime to create a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jonas Winklmann , Martin Schulz

Arrays of single atoms trapped in optical tweezers are increasingly recognized as a promising platform for scalable quantum computing. In both the fault-tolerant and NISQ eras, the ability to individually control qubits is essential for the…

Optical tweezers are a powerful tool for creating defect-free arrays of atoms and molecules, enabling advances in quantum simulation, computation, and precision metrology. However, the achievable array size is limited by the initial loading…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Archie C. Baldock , Alex J. Matthies , Luke Caldwell , Hannah J. Williams

We report the efficient and fast ($\sim 2\mathrm{Hz}$) preparation of randomly loaded 1D chains of individual $^{87}$Rb atoms and of dense atomic clouds trapped in optical tweezers using a new experimental platform. This platform is…

Quantum light sources such as squeezed light are essential for quantum information science and technologies, but the scalable production of multiple beams of them remains a challenge. Here,we experimentally demonstrate a novel approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lin Wang , Xichang Zhang , Konstantin Manannikov , Nir Davidson , Ying Hu , Dongdong Hao , Yanhong Xiao

Arrays of neutral-atom qubits in optical tweezers are a promising platform for quantum computation. Despite experimental progress, a major roadblock for realizing neutral atom quantum computation is the qubit initialization. Here we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Xi-Wang Luo , Mark G. Raizen , Chuanwei Zhang

State-of-the-art individual-atom tweezer platforms have relied on loading schemes based on spatially superimposing the tweezer array with a cloud of cold atoms created beforehand. Together with immanent atom loss, this dramatically limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Lars Pause , Tilman Preuschoff , Dominik Schäffner , Malte Schlosser , Gerhard Birkl