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Transfer of trapped atoms between two optical tweezer potentials

Matthias Schulz, Herbert Crepaz, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Juergen Eschner, Rainer Blatt

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0606018

Abstract

Trapped, laser-cooled rubidium atoms are transferred between two strongly focused, horizontal, orthogonally intersecting laser beams. The transfer efficiency is studied as a function of the vertical distance between the beam axes. Optimum transfer is found when the distance equals the beam waist radius. Numerical simulations reproduce well the experimental results.

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