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中国物理学会期刊

基于空间光调制器球差补偿的锶原子光镊囚禁效果提升

Trapping Enhancement of Strontium Atoms in Optical Tweezers through SLM-Based Spherical Aberration Compensation

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  • 光镊中囚禁的中性原子系统是量子模拟与量子计量领域的重要研究平台。原子通常在真空玻璃腔室内被冷却和囚禁,光镊透过厚窗口聚焦时,平面窗口介质会引入球差,导致轴向点扩散函数展宽,焦点峰值强度下降,降低原子捕获性能。传统方案多依靠定制物镜或可编程波前整形器件校正光场像差,缺乏补偿前后原子囚禁性能的定量对比。本文采用标准商用显微物镜配合纯相位空间光调制器,在 813.4 nm 下对真空窗口球差进行主动补偿,并定量比较补偿前后光镊势阱中 ^88 \mathrmSr 原子的^1S_0-^3P_1共振频率与囚禁寿命。实验表明,补偿后的光镊中心有效光强占比提高93.3%,^1S_0-^3P_1共振频率红移了242.3 kHz,原子囚禁寿命延长至2.90倍。上述结果证实,球差补偿显著恢复光镊的聚焦质量并实质性地改善原子囚禁性能,为冷原子实验中真空窗口像差的补偿与评估提供了原子囚禁效果方面的数据参考。

     

    Optical tweezers for neutral atoms are a core platform for quantum simulation and precision metrology. In such experiments, tight laser foci are often generated with objectives of high numerical aperture (NA) through a vacuum window, where spherical aberration is inevitably introduced. This aberration in the wavefront stretches the focal light field, reducing the peak intensity and gradient, thereby degrading the trapping performance. Conventional solutions mostly rely on custom-made objectives or programmable wavefront-shaping devices to correct the aberrated optical field. However, to our knowledge, no quantitative experimental comparison has been made regarding the atomic transition frequencies and trapping lifetimes before and after the wavefront compensation. We demonstrate active compensation of the window-induced spherical aberration at the 813.4 nm magic wavelength of ^88Sr using a standard commercial microscope objective (20\times, NA = 0.4) combined with a phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM), with the phase mask analytically determined from the wavefront phase retardation of the 3.0-mm-thick fused-silica vacuum window. A 1:1 auxiliary optical path is constructed to quantitatively characterize the three-dimensional focal field before and after compensation. Trapping improvements are evaluated through the ^1S_0--^3P_1 transition frequency and the lifetime of the trapped atoms. Our results show that the axial and radial full widths at half maximum (FWHMs) of the spherically aberrated optical trap are significantly compressed with the correction phase implemented, and the effective intensity fraction is improved by 93.3% relative to the uncompensated case. At the atomic level, the ^1S_0--^3P_1 resonance frequency is further shifted to the red by 242.3 kHz after compensation, corresponding to a trap-depth increase of 48.1 \textµK. The 1/e trapping lifetime is extended from 799.9 ms to 2317.6 ms by a factor of 2.90. These results show that spherical aberration compensation significantly restores the focusing quality of the optical tweezer and increases the trap depth, suppressing atom escape losses and heating, thereby improving the trapping performance. This work provides a quantitative atomic-level evaluation of vacuum-window aberration compensation in optical tweezers, and offers a useful reference for related quantum information research.

     

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