Optical manipulation of matter waves

Kamran Akbari; Valerio Di Giulio; Javier Garcia de Abajo

doi:10.1117/12.2633349

3 October 2022 Optical manipulation of matter waves

Kamran Akbari, Valerio Di Giulio, Javier Garcia de Abajo

Proceedings Volume PC12198, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIX; PC121980T (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633349
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Light is routinely used to steer the motion of atoms in free space, enabling cooling and trapping of matter waves through ponderomotive interaction and Doppler-mediated photon scattering. In parallel, optical interaction with free electrons has recently emerged as a powerful way to modulate the electron wave function for applications in ultrafast electron microscopy. Here, we combine these two worlds by theoretically demonstrating that matter waves can be optically manipulated by inelastic interaction with optical fields, allowing us to modulate the translational wave function and produce temporally and spatially compressed atomic beam pulses.

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Kamran Akbari, Valerio Di Giulio, and Javier Garcia de Abajo "Optical manipulation of matter waves", Proc. SPIE PC12198, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIX, PC121980T (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633349

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