Dynamic manipulation of Bose-Einstein condensates with a spatial light modulator

V.  Boyer; R. M.  Godun; G. Smirne; D.  Cassettari; C. M.  Chandrashekar; A. B. Deb; Z. J. Laczik; C. J. Foot

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.73.031402

Dynamic manipulation of Bose-Einstein condensates with a spatial light modulator

V. Boyer, R. M. Godun, G. Smirne, D. Cassettari, C. M. Chandrashekar, A. B. Deb, Z. J. Laczik, C. J. Foot

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We manipulate a Bose-Einstein condensate using the optical trap created by the diffraction of a laser beam on a fast ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator. The modulator acts as a phase grating which can generate arbitrary diffraction patterns and be rapidly reconfigured at rates up to 1 kHz to create smooth, time-varying optical potentials. The flexibility of the device is demonstrated with our experimental results for splitting a Bose-Einstein condensate and independently transporting the separate parts of the atomic cloud.

Original language	English
Article number	031402
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review A
Volume	73
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.031402
Publication status	Published - Mar 2006

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