Government of the United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce

Daniel Schaeder Barker

Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov

Stephen Paul Eckel

James Fedchak

Julia Kay Scherschligt

Eric Burton Norrgard

A uniaxial counter-propagating monolaser atom trap cools and traps atoms with a single a laser beam and includes: an atom slower that slows atoms to form slowed atoms; an optical diffractor including: a first diffraction grating that receives primary light and produces first reflected light; a second diffraction grating that receives primary light and produces second reflected light; and a third diffraction grating that receives the primary light and produces third reflected light; and a trapping region that forms trap light from the reflected lights and receives slowed atoms to produce trapped atoms from the slowed atoms that interact with the trap light.

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Berwyn Heights, MD, United States of America

Daniel Schaeder Barker