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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2019
Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Stephen Paul Eckel, Rockville, MD (US);
Daniel Schaeder Barker, Berwyn Heights, MD (US);
James Anthony Fedchak, Washington, DC (US);
Julia Kay Scherschligt, Montgomery Village, MD (US);
Eric Burton Norrgard, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov, Ellicott City, MD (US);
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
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.