Cooling Lithium and Cesium Single Atoms in Optical Tweezers
Dissertation covering laser cooling theory for trapped spinful atoms, high-survival lithium imaging, and narrow-line cesium cooling and imaging in optical tweezers.
Publications
Papers, preprints, and what they contributed.
These publications form the backbone of my thesis work: high-survival lithium imaging, a unified cooling theory, and cesium quadrupole cooling/background-free imaging.
Narrow-Line Electric Quadrupole Cooling And Background-Free Imaging Of A Single Cs Atom With Spatially Structured Light
Demonstrates 685 nm quadrupole excitation of a single Cs atom in a tweezer using spatially structured light, enabling background-free 852 nm cascade imaging and narrow-line cooling.
Generalized theory for optical cooling of a trapped atom with spin
Develops a master-equation framework that connects sideband, polarization-gradient, gray-molasses, Λ-GM, EIT-like, and Raman cooling mechanisms for bound atoms with spin.
Imaging a 6Li Atom In An Optical Tweezer 2000 Times with Λ-Enhanced Gray Molasses
Reports high-fidelity fluorescence imaging of a single lithium atom in an optical tweezer, achieving 2000 consecutive images with 99.950% per-image survival.