Generation of multiple power-balanced laser beams for quantum-state manipulation experiments with phase-stable double optical lattices

2005/12/31 by S. J. H. Petra, S J H Petra, P. Sjolund +3 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Information and Cryptography #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1464-4258/8/5/003

published as J. Opt. A 8, 381-385 (2006) · 9 pages, 5 figures

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Abstract

We present a method to obtain power-balanced laser beams for doing quantum-state manipulation experiments with phase-stable double optical lattices. Double optical lattices are constructed using four pairs of overlapped laser beams with different frequency. Our optical scheme provides a phase stability between the optical lattices of 5 mrad/s and laser beams with a very clean polarisation state resulting in a power imbalance in the individual laser beams of less than 1%.

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