Laser cooling with a single laser beam and a planar diffractor

Matthieu Vangeleyn; Paul F. Griffin; Erling Riis; Aidan S. Arnold

doi:10.1364/OL.35.003453

Laser cooling with a single laser beam and a planar diffractor

Matthieu Vangeleyn, Paul F. Griffin, Erling Riis, Aidan S. Arnold

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A planar triplet of diffraction gratings is used to transform a single laser beam into a four-beam tetrahedral magneto-optical trap. This "flat" pyramid diffractor geometry is ideal for future microfabrication. We demonstrate the technique by trapping and subsequently sub-Doppler cooling Rb-87 atoms to 30 mu K.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3453-3455
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	35
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.003453
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2010

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Nshii, C., Vangeleyn, M., Cotter, J. P., Griffin, P., Hinds, E. A., Ironside, C. N., See, P., Sinclair, A. G., Riis, E. & Arnold, A., May 2013, In: Nature Nanotechnology. 8, 5, p. 321-324 4 p.
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