Massive particle acceleration on a photonic chip via spatial-temporal modulation
Abstract
Recently, the spectral manipulation of single photons has been achieved through spatial-temporal modulation of the optical refractive index. Here, we generalize this mechanism to massive particles, i.e. realizing the acceleration or deceleration of particles through the spatial-temporal modulation of potential induced by lasers. On a photonic integrated chip, we propose a MeV-magnitude acceleration by distributed modulation units driven by lasers. The mechanism could also be applied to atom trapping, which promises a millimeter-scale decelerator to trap atoms. The spatial-temporal modulation approach is universal and could be generalized to other systems, which may play a significant role in hybrid photonic chip and microscale particle manipulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2204.11543,
title = {Massive particle acceleration on a photonic chip via spatial-temporal modulation},
author = {Mai Zhang and Xie-hang Yu and Xin-Biao Xu and Guang-Can Guo and Chang-Ling Zou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11543},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures