Conceptual illustration of the Atom Camera. A single ultracold rubidium (Rb) atom trapped in an optical tweezer is spatially scanned to visualize the intensity and polarization distributions of a light pattern. (IMAGE)

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Conceptual illustration of the Atom Camera. A single ultracold rubidium (Rb) atom trapped in an optical tweezer is spatially scanned to visualize the intensity and polarization distributions of a light pattern.

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Conceptual illustration of the Atom Camera. A single ultracold rubidium (Rb) atom trapped in an optical tweezer is spatially scanned to visualize the intensity and polarization distributions of a light pattern.

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Takafumi Tomita

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