Trapping ${}^{171}$Yb Atoms into a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice with a Small Waist

Akio Kawasaki, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +4

In most experiments with atoms trapped in optical lattices, the transverse size of the optical lattice beams is on the order of tens of micrometers, and loading many atoms into sma…