Patent classifications
G21K1/00
ONE-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL LATTICE PRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD WITH CALIBRATION FUNCTION
The production device includes a laser incident unit, a scientific chamber, a reflection unit, and a light path coincidence calibration unit detachably arranged. The light path coincidence calibration unit includes: a fourth polarizing beam splitter, a fourth half-wave plate and a fifth half-wave plate sequentially arranged on a laser path of the laser incident unit; and an optical power probe arranged on the reflection path of the fourth polarizing beam splitter. The fourth half-wave plate and the fifth half-wave plate are adjusted so that the light is reflected when passing through the fourth polarizing beam splitter. The optical power probe can receive the reflected light, the angle of the reflected light can be changed by adjusting the reflection unit; the angle change of the reflected light may directly influence the intensity of the reflected light received by the optical power probe.
Atomic cooling and trapping methods and apparatus
An optical trap for laser cooling and trapping atoms. Three Z pairs of laser beams are directed to cross in a vacuum chamber at a common intersection volume, wherein each pair is formed by two counterpropagating beams. Rather than having a mutually orthogonal arrangement in which each beam pair forms an angle χ of 45° to a reference axis, z, these angles are instead between 5°≤χ≤40°. Moreover, in each beam pair, the counterpropagating beams are not precisely aligned in a common path, as in a conventional magneto-optical trap, but are slightly misaligned by respective misalignement angles [α, β, κ] of typically 0.1° to 2°. The misalignment angles and beam widths are however selected so that a common intersection volume for all six beams is maintained This provides an all-optical trap in which laser cooling and trapping of atoms takes place without a magnetic field being present.
TRAPPING AND MANIPULATION OF NANOPARTICLES WITH LIGHT AND ELECTRIC FIELD
A nanotweezer and method of trapping and dynamic manipulation thereby are provided. The nanotweezer comprises a first metastructure including a first substrate, a first electrode, and a plurality of plasmonic nanostructures arranged in an array, and a trapping region laterally displaced from the array; a second metastructure including a second substrate and a second electrode; a microfluidic channel between the first metastructure and the second metastructure; a voltage source configured to selectively apply an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a light source configured to selectively apply an excitation light to the microfluidic channel at a first location corresponding to the array, thereby to trap a nanoparticle at a second location corresponding to the trapping region.
OPTICAL MICROSTRUCTURE FOR FIBER OPTICAL TWEEZERS
An optical microstructure is configured to work with an optical fiber or a different substrate and the optical microstructure includes a beam converter including a tapered optical guide configured to transform a gaussian optical beam into a first annular optical beam; an inverted cone having first and second reflection surfaces, each configured to reflect the first annular optical beam, having a radius R1, so that a resulting second annular optical beam has a radius R2 larger than the radius R1; and a prism having a reflection surface configured to reflect the second annular optical beam to form a third converging annular optical beam. The third converging annular optical beam includes plural single optical beams that intersect at a given crossing point, outside the optical microstructure. The plural single optical beams form an optical trap.
AN ENCLOSURE
An alkali metal vapor enclosure comprising: an internal surface comprising nanostructures; a transmissive portion to enable the internal surface to be illuminated; wherein the enclosure contains atoms of an alkali metal which are in a vapor state and/or adsorbed onto the internal surface; and wherein illumination of the internal surface via the transmissive portion with light having a frequency to cause a temperature rise in the nanostructures by exciting an enhanced optical extinction mechanism in the nanostructures, causes an increase in the density of the alkali metal vapor.
Optical Tweezer Phonon Laser
An optical tweezer phonon laser system and method for modulating mechanical vibrations of an optically levitated mechanical oscillator to produce coherence is disclosed. A feedback loop is configured to simultaneously supply an electro-optic modulator with an amplification signal and a cooling signal representing an amplification force linear in the mechanical oscillator momentum and a cooling force nonlinear in the mechanical oscillator variable position and linear in the momentum, respectively controlling the intensity of a trap beam levitating the mechanical oscillator.
System and methods for realizing transverse Anderson localization in energy relays using component engineered structures
Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing energy relays for energy directing systems and Transverse Anderson Localization. Systems and methods include providing first and second component engineered structures with first and second sets of engineered properties and forming a medium using the first component engineered structure and the second component engineered structure. The forming step includes randomizing a first engineered property in a first orientation of the medium resulting in a first variability of that engineered property in that plane, and the values of the second engineered property allowing for a variation of the first engineered property in a second orientation of the medium, where the variation of the first engineered property in the second orientation is less than the variation of the first engineered property in the first orientation.
System and methods for realizing transverse Anderson localization in energy relays using component engineered structures
Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing energy relays for energy directing systems and Transverse Anderson Localization. Systems and methods include providing first and second component engineered structures with first and second sets of engineered properties and forming a medium using the first component engineered structure and the second component engineered structure. The forming step includes randomizing a first engineered property in a first orientation of the medium resulting in a first variability of that engineered property in that plane, and the values of the second engineered property allowing for a variation of the first engineered property in a second orientation of the medium, where the variation of the first engineered property in the second orientation is less than the variation of the first engineered property in the first orientation.
Quantum pressure standard and methods for determining and using same
A method determines a total velocity average cross-section parameter σ.sub.totν
in a relationship of the form Γ.sub.loss(U)=n.sub.b
σ.sub.totν
.Math.ƒ(U, U.sub.d), where: Γ.sub.loss(U) is a rate of exponential loss of sensor atoms from a cold atom sensor trap of trap depth potential energy U in a vacuum environment due to collisions with residual particles in the vacuum environment; n.sub.b is a number density of residual particles in the vacuum environment; U.sub.d is a parameter given by
which relates the masses of the sensor atoms m.sub.t and residual particles m.sub.bg to the total velocity average cross-section parameter
HIGH DENSITY ENERGY DIRECTING DEVICE
Disclosed embodiments include an energy directing device having one or more energy relay elements configured to direct energy from one or more energy locations through the device. In an embodiment, surfaces of the one or more energy relay elements may form a singular seamless energy surface where a separation between adjacent energy relay element surfaces is less than a minimum perceptible contour. In disclosed embodiments, energy is produced at energy locations having an active energy surface and a mechanical envelope. In an embodiment, the energy directing device is configured to relay energy from the energy locations through the singular seamless energy surface while minimizing separation between energy locations due to their mechanical envelope. In embodiments, the energy relay elements may comprise energy relays utilizing transverse Anderson localization phenomena.