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Atom mirror etched from a hard drive

Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 395 (2003); doi:10.1063/1.1592305

Issue Date: 14 July 2003

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Benjamin Lev, Yves Lassailly, Chungsok Lee, Axel Scherer, and Hideo Mabuchi
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
We describe the fabrication of an atom mirror by etching of a common hard drive, and we report the observation of specular retroreflection of 11 µK cesium atoms using this mirror. The atoms were trapped and cooled above the hard drive using the mirror magneto-optical trap technique, and upon release, two full bounces were detected. The hard drive atom mirror will be a useful tool for both atom optics and quantum computation. ©2003 American Institute of Physics.
History: Received 1 April 2003; accepted 16 May 2003
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 03.75.Be
    Atom and neutron optics
  • 32.80.Pj
    Optical cooling of atoms; trapping
  • 39.25.+k
    Atom manipulation including scanning probe microscopy, laser cooling, etc
  • 52.77.Bn
    Etching and cleaning in plasmas
  • 03.67.Lx
    Quantum computation
  • 81.65.Cf
    Surface cleaning, etching, patterning
  • YEAR: 2003

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