2010/09/14 by P. Kulatunga, Tyler Blum, T. Blum +4
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1009.2544
8 pages, 9 Figures
arxiv created 2010/09/14 · openalex publication_date 2010/09/14 · arxiv updated 2010/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report on an investigation of loading characteristics of deep microscopic dipole traps. The dipole trap is loaded from a low density magneto optical trap (MOT) containing ≈ 5× 106 atoms. We determine the loading parameters that maximize the trapped atom number for a trap of waist 5 μm with trap depths ranging from 3.5 mK to 10 mK. We determine the optimal trap loading conditions and the loading rates, loss coefficients and temperature of the trapped atoms under these conditions. We show that it is possible to load a few hundred to thousand atoms in dipole traps of depth 3.5 mK to 8.5 mK under the optimal loading conditions.