The underlying working principle of the conveyor MOT, illustrated in Fig. 1a and supported by numerical simulations 51, is as follows. Fig. 1: Working principle of a CaF conveyor MOT. The alternative ...
dynamic 1D optical lattice. The lattice beams are frequency chirped using acousto-optic modulators, which causes the lattice to move along its axial direction and behave like an optical conveyor belt.