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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 5, 436 (2017)

Blue-detuned optical atom trapping in a compact plasmonic structure

Zhao Chen¹, Fan Zhang¹, Qi Zhang¹, Juanjuan Ren¹, He Hao¹, Xueke Duan¹, Pengfei Zhang^2、3, Tiancai Zhang^2、3, Ying Gu^1、2、*, and Qihuang Gong^1、2

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¹State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China

³State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Zhao Chen, Fan Zhang, Qi Zhang, Juanjuan Ren, He Hao, Xueke Duan, Pengfei Zhang, Tiancai Zhang, Ying Gu, Qihuang Gong. Blue-detuned optical atom trapping in a compact plasmonic structure[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(5): 436 Copy Citation Text

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