Phase-engineered Light Patterns for Ultracold Atom Experiments
Phase-engineered Light Patterns for Ultracold Atom Experiments
- Event time: 5:30pm
- Event date: 15th October 2015
- Speaker: Dr Donatella Cassettari (University of St Andrews)
- Location: Lecture Theatre A, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in spatially-tailored optical patterns for use in manipulating ultracold neutral atoms. In this presentation I will review our methods to produce smooth, high-accuracy and multi-wavelength light patterns by engineering the phase of light with a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). I will show that this approach successfully combines computational efficiency and algorithm versatility, allowing the accurate reproduction of a variety of target intensity profiles.
All welcome.
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