Integrating planar photonics for multi-beam generation and atomic clock packaging on chip

Chad Ropp; Wenqi Zhu; Alexander Yulaev; Daron Westly; Gregory Simelgor; Akash Rakholia; William Lunden; Dan Sheredy; Martin M. Boyd; Scott Papp; Amit Agrawal; Vladimir Aksyuk

doi:10.1038/s41377-023-01081-x

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Integrating planar photonics for multi-beam generation and atomic clock packaging on chip

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- Integrating planar photonics for multi-beam generation and atomic clock packaging on chip
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 4, Pages: 691-701(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
  2.Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
  3.Vector Atomic, Inc., Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA
  4.Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
- Author bio：
  
  Vladimir Aksyuk (vladimir.aksyuk@nist.gov)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01081-x
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- Published：2023，
  
  Published Online：3 April 2023，
  
  Received：9 August 2022，
  
  Revised：17 January 2023，
  
  Accepted：22 January 2023
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Ropp, C.et al. Integrating planar photonics for multi-beam generation and atomic clock packaging on chip.Light: Science & Applications,12, 691-701 (2023).
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Ropp, C.et al. Integrating planar photonics for multi-beam generation and atomic clock packaging on chip.Light: Science & Applications,12, 691-701 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01081-x.

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Abstract

The commercialization of atomic technologies requires replacing laboratory-scale laser setups with compact and manufacturable optical platforms. Complex arrangements of free-space beams can be generated on chip through a combination of integrated photonics and metasurface optics. In this work

we combine these two technologies using flip-chip bonding and demonstrate an integrated optical architecture for realizing a compact strontium atomic clock. Our planar design includes twelve beams in two co-aligned magneto-optical traps. These beams are directed above the chip to intersect at a central location with diameters as large as 1 cm. Our design also includes two co-propagating beams at lattice and clock wavelengths. These beams emit collinearly and vertically to probe the center of the magneto-optical trap

where they will have diameters of ≈100 μm. With these devices we demonstrate that our integrated photonic platform is scalable to an arbitrary number of beams

each with different wavelengths

geometries

and polarizations.

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