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PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.064023
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- National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship Program
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We demonstrate a compact (0.25 L) system for laser cooling and trapping atoms from a heated dispenser source. Our system uses a nanofabricated diffraction grating to generate a magneto-optical trap (MOT) using a single input laser beam. An aperture in the grating allows atoms from the dispenser to be loaded from behind the chip, increasing the interaction distance of atoms with the cooling light. To take full advantage of this increased distance, we extend the magnetic field gradient of the MOT to create a Zeeman slower. The MOT traps approximately 10(6 7)Li atoms emitted from an effusive source with loading rates greater than 10(6) s(-1). Our design is portable to a variety of atomic and molecular species and could be a principal component of miniaturized cold-atom-based technologies.
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