All-optical matter-wave lens using time-averaged potentials

authored by

H. Albers, Robin Corgier, A. Herbst, A. Rajagopalan, C. Schubert, Christian Vogt, Marian Woltmann, Claus Lämmerzahl, Sven Herrmann, Eric Charron, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst M. Rasel, Naceur Gaaloul, Dennis Schlippert

Abstract

The stability of matter-wave sensors benefits from interrogating large-particle-number atomic ensembles at high cycle rates. The use of quantum-degenerate gases with their low effective temperatures allows constraining systematic errors towards highest accuracy, but their production by evaporative cooling is costly with regard to both atom number and cycle rate. In this work, we report on the creation of cold matter-waves using a crossed optical dipole trap and shaping it by means of an all-optical matter-wave lens. We demonstrate the trade off between residual kinetic energy and atom number by short-cutting evaporative cooling and estimate the corresponding performance gain in matter-wave sensors. Our method is implemented using time-averaged optical potentials and hence easily applicable in optical dipole trapping setups.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Quantum Optics
Quantum Atom Optics
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)
CRC 1464: Relativistic and Quantum-Based Geodesy (TerraQ)

External Organisation(s)

Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM)
Université Paris-Saclay
DLR-Institute for Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
University of Bremen

Type

Article

Journal

Communications Physics

Volume

5

ISSN

2399-3650

Publication date

16.03.2022

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Physics and Astronomy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2109.08608 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00825-2 (Access: Open)