• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 4, Issue 9, 497 (2006)
Yang Liu, Min Yun, and Jianping Yin*
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  • Key Laboratory for Optical and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
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    Yang Liu, Min Yun, Jianping Yin. Magnetic focusing of cold atomic beam with a 2D array of current-carrying wires[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2006, 4(9): 497 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A new scheme to realize a two-dimensional (2D) array of magnetic micro-lenses for a cold atomic beam, formed by an array of square current-carrying wires, is proposed. We calculate the spatial distributions of the magnetic fields from the array of current-carrying wires and the magnetic focusing potential for cold rubidium atoms, and study the dynamic focusing processes of cold atoms passing through the magnetic micro-lens array and its focusing properties by using Monte-Carlo simulations and trajectory tracing method. The result shows that the proposed micro-lens array can be used to focus effectively a cold atomic beam, even to load ultracold atoms or a BEC sample into a 2D optical lattice formed by blue detuned hollow beams.
    Yang Liu, Min Yun, Jianping Yin. Magnetic focusing of cold atomic beam with a 2D array of current-carrying wires[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2006, 4(9): 497
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