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We present a novel acousto-optic lens (AOL) design for neutral atom quantum computing. This approach enhances atom rearrangement in optical tweezer arrays and addresses the speed limitations imposed by the cylindrical lensing effect of…

Acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) are widely used across physics, microscopy, neuroscience, and laser engineering, providing fast, precise, and non-mechanical control of light. While conventional AODs naturally support multiplexing in one and…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lewis R. B. Picard , Manuel Endres

Acousto-optic deflectors (AOD) enable spatiotemporal control of laser beams through diffraction at an ultrasonic grating that is controllable by radio-frequency (rf) waveforms. These devices are a widely used tool for high-bandwidth…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 Marcel Mittenbuehler , Lukas Sturm , Malte Schlosser , Gerhard Birkl

We demonstrate a dual wavelength acousto-optic deflector (AOD) designed to deflect two wavelengths to the same angles by driving with two RF frequencies. The AOD is designed as a beam scanner to address two-photon transitions in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Sangtaek Kim , Robert R. Mcleod , Mark Saffman , Kelvin H. Wagner

Precise and flexible control of structured light fields is essential for applications ranging from optical trapping and quantum simulation to microscopy and materials processing. Acousto-optical deflectors (AODs) are widely used in these…

We report on the implementation of an optical tweezer system for controlled transport of ultracold atoms along a narrow, static confinement channel. The tweezer system is based on high-efficiency acousto-optical deflectors and offers…

We present a three-dimensional steerable optical tweezer system based on two pairs of acousto-optic deflectors. Radio frequencies used to steer the optical tweezers are generated by direct digital synthesis and multiple cross beam dipole…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-17 C. S. Chisholm , R. Thomas , A. B. Deb , N. Kjærgaard

Current architectures for neutral-atom arrays utilize devices such as acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) and spatial light modulators (SLMs) to multiplex a single classical control line into N qubit control lines. Dynamic control is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Edita Bytyqi , Josiah Sinclair , Joshua Ramette , Vladan Vuletić

Large arrays of individually controlled atoms trapped in optical tweezers are a very promising platform for quantum engineering applications. However, to date, only disordered arrays have been demonstrated, due to the non-deterministic…

Optical tweezers constitute pivotal tools in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical(AMO) physics, facilitating precise trapping and manipulation of individual atoms and molecules. This process affords the capability to generate desired geometries…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Yongwoong Lee , Eunmi Chae

We demonstrate the trapping and manipulation of single neutral atoms in reconfigurable arrays of optical tweezers. Our approach offers unparalleled speed by using a Texas Instruments Digital Micro-mirror Device (DMD) as a holographic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Dustin Stuart , Axel Kuhn

Movable single atoms have drawn significant attention for their potentials as flying quantum memory in non-local, dynamic quantum computing architectures. However, when dynamic optical tweezers are employed to control atoms…

The transport of neutral atoms in Rydberg quantum computers is a crucial step of the initial arrangement of the grid as well as to the dynamic connectivity, recently successfully demonstrated. We study the application of optimal control and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Alice Pagano , Daniel Jaschke , Werner Weiss , Simone Montangero

Optical tweezers are a powerful tool for the precise positioning of a variety of small objects, including single neutral atoms. Once trapped, atoms can be cooled to the motional ground state of the tweezers. For a more advanced control of…

Trapping of single ultracold atoms is an important tool for applications ranging from quantum computation and communication to sensing. However, most experimental setups, while very precise and versatile, can only be operated in specialized…

Neutral atoms trapped by laser light are amongst the most promising candidates for storing and processing information in a quantum computer or simulator. The application certainly calls for a scalable and flexible scheme for addressing and…

The motion of atoms in programmable optical tweezer arrays offers many new opportunities for neutral atom quantum science. These include inter- and intra-site atom motion for resource-efficient implementations of fermionic and bosonic…

Assembling increasingly larger-scale defect-free optical tweezer-trapped atom arrays is essential for quantum computation and quantum simulations based on atoms. Here, we propose an AI-enabled, rapid, constant-time-overhead rearrangement…

Optical tweezer arrays of laser-cooled and individual controlled particles have revolutionized the atomic, molecular and optical physics, and they afford exquisite capabilities for applications in quantum simulation of many-body physics,…

Defect-free single atom array in optical tweezers is a promising platform for scalable quantum computing, quantum simulation, and quantum metrology. Extending single-species array to mixed-species one promise to offer new possibilities. In…

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