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Trapping, Transporting, and Splitting Cold Molecules Employing a Spatial Liquid Crystal Modulator |
| GONG Tian-Lin1, HUANG Yun-Xia1, MU Ren-Wang1, JI Xian-Ming1, YANG Xiao-Hua1,2** |
1School of Science, Nantong University, Nantong 226019
2State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
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GONG Tian-Lin, HUANG Yun-Xia, MU Ren-Wang et al 2013 Chin. Phys. Lett. 30 013701 |
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Abstract Optically transporting and splitting cold molecules are proposed by spatially pure phase modulating a Gaussian laser beam with a spatial liquid crystal modulator (SLM). Taking the experimentally available cold KRb molecules (350 nK) as an example, the computations show that the trapping depth is about 460 μK and the trap can be split and transported up to 1 cm when a commercially available SLM is employed.
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Received: 26 July 2012
Published: 04 March 2013
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37.10.Pq
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(Trapping of molecules)
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37.90.+j
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(Other topics in mechanical control of atoms, molecules, and ions)
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42.30.Lr
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(Modulation and optical transfer functions)
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