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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 28, Issue 21, Pages 31209-31215Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.405002
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- ARO DURIP [W911NF1810194]
- NSF-CUA [PHY-1734011]
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation [TC-18-003]
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) [W911NF1810194] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
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We reduce the intensity noise of laser light by using an electro-optic modulator and acousto-optic modulator in series. The electro-optic modulator reduces noise at high frequency (10 kHz to 1 MHz), while the acousto-optic modulator sets the average power of the light and reduces noise at low frequency (up to 10 kHz). The light is then used to trap single sodium atoms in an optical tweezer, where the lifetime of the atoms is limited by parametric heating due to laser noise at twice the trapping frequency. With our noise eater, the noise is reduced by up to 15 dB at these frequencies and the lifetime of the atom in the optical tweezer is increased by an order of magnitude to around 6 seconds. Our technique is general and acts directly on the laser beam, expanding laser options for sensitive optical trapping applications. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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