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Trapping of Micro Particles in Nanoplasmonic Optical Lattice
Published on: September 5, 2017
Suppression of ion transport due to long-lived subwavelength localization by an optical lattice
Leon Karpa1, Alexei Bylinskii, Dorian Gangloff
1Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Abstract:
We report the localization of an ion by a one-dimensional optical lattice in the presence of an applied external force. The ion is confined radially by a radio frequency trap and axially by a combined electrostatic and optical-lattice potential. Using a resolved Raman sideband technique, one or several ions are cooled to a mean vibrational number
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