Laser ablation loading of a surface-electrode ion trap

David R. Leibrandt, Robert J. Clark, Jaroslaw Labaziewicz +4

We demonstrate loading by laser ablation of ${}^{88}$Sr${}^{+}$ ions into a mm-scale surface-electrode ion trap. The laser used for ablation is a pulsed, frequency-tripled Nd:YAG with pu…