From Single Beam to Customizable Arrays (IMAGE)

Columbia University

From Single Beam to Customizable Arrays

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Schematic of how a metasurface shapes a single beam of light into multiple tightly focused beams in a single step. These beams form a series of optical tweezers to trap individual atoms into arrays with arbitrary geometry.

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Will and Yu labs, Columbia University

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