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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 39: Quantum Information: Atoms and Ions III
Q 39.6: Talk
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 18:00–18:15, E 214
Trapping of Ytterbium Ions with a Stylus Trap — •Andrea Golla1,2, Robert Maiwald1,2, Simon Heugel1,2, Alessandro Villar2, Markus Sondermann1,2, and Gerd Leuchs1,2 — 1Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik (IOIP), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7/B2, 91058 Erlangen — 2Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (MPL), Günther-Scharowsky-Str. 1/Bau 24, 91058 Erlangen
Recently, a needle like Paul trap with high optical and physical accessibility has been developed and tested using magnesium ions [1]. We want to employ such a stylus trap for localizing a single ion in the focal point of a deep parabolic mirror. In the planned experiment, singly and doubly ionized ytterbium will be coupled to the light field from the nearly full solid angle. Yb2+ will be produced by photoionization of trapped and laser cooled Yb+. Here, we report on the successful trapping of single Yb+ ions with the stylus trap and discuss the experimental progress.
[1] R. Maiwald et al., Nature Physics 5, 551-554 (2009)