Nearly deterministic loading of a single cesium atom in a magneto-optical trap and in a microscopic optical tweezer by feedback control

Bei Liu; Jun-Min Wang; Wen-Ting Diao; Jie-Ying Wang; Gang Jin; Jun He

doi:10.1117/12.2052085

1 May 2014 Nearly deterministic loading of a single cesium atom in a magneto-optical trap and in a microscopic optical tweezer by feedback control

Bei Liu, Jun-Min Wang, Wen-Ting Diao, Jie-Ying Wang, Gang Jin, Jun He

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Proceedings Volume 9136, Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications VIII; and Quantum Optics III; 91362O (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2052085
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Based on feedback control techniques and our realization of nearly complete transferring cold cesium (Cs) atoms from a magneto-optical trap (MOT) to a far-off-resonance microscopic optical tweezer, we investigated the possibility for nearly deterministic loading of a single Cs atom in a MOT and in a microscopic optical tweezer. We combined feedback controls on the gradient of the MOT quadrupole magnetic field (QMF) and on blue-detuned light-assisted collisions (LAC) of confined cold atoms in the tweezer. Using active feedback on QMF of the MOT, we have achieved ~ 98% of probability of single atom loading in a MOT. In a microscopic optical tweezer, by combining the feedback controls on the QMF and the LAC, we finally achieved ~ 95.2% of probability of single atom loading in the tweezer. This two-path feedback control scheme may be extended to load a small-size 2D tweezer array with exact single atom trapped in each site simultaneously. This is very important and promising to implement an addressable multiple-qubit system for demonstrating quantum register and quantum processor.

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Bei Liu, Jun-Min Wang, Wen-Ting Diao, Jie-Ying Wang, Gang Jin, and Jun He "Nearly deterministic loading of a single cesium atom in a magneto-optical trap and in a microscopic optical tweezer by feedback control", Proc. SPIE 9136, Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications VIII; and Quantum Optics III, 91362O (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2052085

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