cavity-enhanced dipole forces for dark-field seeking atoms and molecules
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L 20. L 00. Cavity-enhanced dipole forces for dark-field seeking atoms and molecules. David McGloin, Kishan Dholakia. Tim Freegarde. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento 38050 Povo (TN), Italy. J F Allen Physics Research Laboratories, University of St Andrews, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Cavity-enhanced dipole forces for dark-field seeking atoms and moleculesTim Freegarde
Dipartimento di Fisica,Università di Trento38050 Povo (TN), Italy
J F Allen Physics Research Laboratories,University of St Andrews,Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland
David McGloin, Kishan Dholakia
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Hermite-GaussianLaguerre-Gaussian
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RAY OPTICS• 2 round trips before repeating• inverted image after 1 round trip• returning beam forward beam
GAUSSIAN BEAMS
CAVITY MODES• half modes simultaneously
resonant• (anti-)symmetric image =
superposition of even(odd) modes
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HALF TRIP ROUND TRIP
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L/R2
0 1
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• high
• low
towardslow intensity
towardshigh intensity
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OPTICAL BOTTLE BEAM• Freegarde & Dholakia, Phys Rev A, in press• see Arlt & Padgett, Opt. Lett. 25 (2000) 191-193
• Laguerre-Gaussian superposition:
CONFOCAL CAVITIES
COAXIAL RING ARRAY• Freegarde & Dholakia, Opt. Commun. 201 99 (2002)• see Zemánek & Foot, Opt. Commun. 146 119 (1998)
• use single Gaussian beam of waist w1 larger than that of the fundamental cavity mode (w0 = w1)
• counterpropagating beam smaller by same factor (w2 = w0)
• beams of equal power cancel where nodal surfaces intersect
2
12
22
120
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zwzr
• intensity minima form a series of coaxial rings spaced by /2
• traps deepest when = 0.492
• r0 ~ 0.7 w0(z)
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pmpm zrazr ,, L
• with = 0.492, 99% of power in first 5 modes
OPTICAL DIPOLE FORCE
LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS
• return beam larger than forward beam to avoid nodal surfaces
• cancellation at cavity centre• constructive interference
elsewhere thanks to different radial dependences and Gouy shifts
• with = 0.5, the maximum modulation depth is 7%.
Intensity distribution within a perfectly confocal resonator.
Above left: mean intensity shown for central 40% of the cavity. The solid lines show where the forward beam has fallen to e-2 of its on-axis intensity.
Above: viewed on a wavelength scale around the cavity centre, the modulation due to interference between the counter-propagating beams is apparent. Here,l = 100 mm, = 780nm, = 2.
Left: depth of modulation due to interference between forward and return beams. Black=0, white=100%.
MECHANICAL AMPLIFIER
Amplitudes ap0 of mode components forming the complete five-component optical bottle beam with =2.
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• five component superposition optimizes trap depth for given radius:
COMPOSITION
• trap intensity nearly half that at centre of simple Gaussian beam with same waist and power as forward beam• 99.99% mirrors with 100 mW at 780 nm would give 5 K trap depth for 85Rb at 0.2 nm detuning
Variation of trap col (dotted) and trap centre (dashed) intensities – in units of the well depth at zero mirror displacement – and trap centre position (right hand scale) as mirrors are displaced from their confocal separation.
Intensity distribution when the cavity mirrors are 0.1 mm from their confocal separation (l/l = 0.001), for r2
= 0.99,t2 = 0.01. The nodal surfaces, shown dashed, are now curved, reflecting the increase in Gouy phase with mode number. Central and trapping intensities are reduced by about a third.
Intensity distribution around the centre of a confocal cavity. Dashed and solid lines indicate the nodal and antinodal planes; the dotted line shows where the lowest part of the trap wall is maximum. Logarithmic contours (four per decade) refer to the peak intensity on axis. l = 100 mm, = 780 nm, = 0.492.
• trapping of spectrally complex atoms and molecules
• investigation of vortices in quantum degenerate gases14
• coupling between adjacent microtraps15
• cooling via coupling to cavity radiation field16-18
Applications:
SINGLE TOROID• in preparation
• dissimilar forward/return waist sizes eliminate nodal planes
• magnetic field free toroidal trap for study of vortices in condensates14
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dipole traps eliminate the magnetic fields needed for MOTs1
FAR OFF RESONANCE2-5
broadband interaction andminimal scattering, hence suitable for
spectrally complex atoms and molecules
intense laser beam needed to compensate for interaction weakness
BLUE-DETUNED6-10
dark-field seeking to minimize residual perturbations
need isolated islands of low intensity for closed trapping region
RESONANT CAVITIES11-13
can greatly increase circulating intensity, as optical absorption is low
optical field not a single cavity mode
• transverse mode degeneracy allows enhancement of mode superpositions for complex field geometries
• an arbitrary field may be written as a superposition
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• the Laguerre-Gaussian cavity modes are solutions to the paraxial wave equation in cylindrical polar coordinates,
where are Laguerre polynomials and , , . xLmp
•three different views of physics:
Dipole force traps for dark-field seeking states of atoms and molecules require regions of low intensity that are completely surrounded by a bright optical field. Confocal cavities allow the resonant enhancement of these interesting transverse mode superpositions, and put deep off-resonant dark-field seeking dipole traps within reach of low-power diode lasers.
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• Laguerre-Gaussian beams , of non-resonant waist radius w1, correspond to superpositions of resonant L-G beams with the same azimuthal index m = s. The first three coefficients are:
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col intensity
trap centreintensity
trap centre position
• moving the mirrors from their confocal separation causes an amplified displacement of the trap centre
• amplification by same factor as intensity enhancement
LARGE PERIOD STANDING WAVE • in preparation
• see D M Giltner et al, Opt. Commun. 107 227 (1994)
• pattern period = /sin• 2-D Hermite-Gaussian
analysis; astigmatism renders out-of-plane direction non-confocal
• high Q: all (odd) even modes
give (anti-)symmetric
field patternfinite Q: half-axial modes
contribute
• amplification mechanism may be compared to Vernier scale between Gouy phases of different Laguerre-Gaussian components