High-efficiency 2D Grating Design for the Magneto-Optical Trap: Enhancing Intensity Balance and Reducing Optical Complexity

Elaheh Karooby, Jiazhen Li, Amit Agrawal +1

Diffraction gratings integrated into an atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) setup offer a compact and efficient route toward atom cooling and trapping, thus preparing magneto-opti…