Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We are exploring the possibilities offered by Spatial Light Modulators to create dipole potentials with arbitrary shape in order to apply to cold atoms. As a first experiment we have realized a guide for atoms by shaping the laser beam into a Laguerre-Gaussian mode, creating a sort of tube, empty of light, where the atoms rest confined during their flight in the gravity field. We are, now, creating new potentials by modifying the Laguerre-Gaussian hologram in order to create new original traps for atoms.
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2054428660