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Atom trapping in an interferometrically generated bottle beam trap
L Isenhower1, W Williams, A Dally
1Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Optics Letters
|April 17, 2009
Abstract:
We demonstrate an optical bottle beam trap created by interfering two fundamental Gaussian beams with different waists. The beams are derived from a single laser source using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer whose arms have unequal magnifications. Destructive interference of the two beams from the Mach-Zehnder leads to a three-dimensional intensity null at the mutual focus of the beams. We demonstrate trapping of cold cesium atoms in a blue detuned bottle beam trap.
