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 molec...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 460μK and the trap can be split and transported up to 1 cm when a commercially available SLM is employed.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11034002 and 11274114the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China under Grant No 2011CB921602the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy.
文摘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 460μK and the trap can be split and transported up to 1 cm when a commercially available SLM is employed.