Enhancing single-atom loading in tightly confined dipole traps with an ancillary dipole beam
Enhancing single-atom loading in tightly confined dipole traps with an ancillary dipole beam
Single atoms trapped in tightly focused optical dipole traps provide an excellent experimental platform for quantum computing, precision measurement, and fundamental physics research. In this work, we propose and demonstrate an approach to enhancing the loading of single atoms by introducing a weak ancillary dipole beam. The loading rate of …