Soon Wei Daniel Lim,1 Joon-Suh Park,1 Dmitry Kazakov,1 Christina M. Spaegele,1 Ahmed H Dorrah,1 Maryna L. Meretskahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8749-9374,1 Federico Capasso1
1Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (United States)
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Phase singularities are loci of darkness surrounded by light in a scalar field. We engineer an array of closely-spaced identical point singularities structured along the optic axis. The array is experimentally realized with a TiO2 metasurface under 760 nm narrowband illumination. We study possible application in blue-detuned neutral atom trap arrays, for which this field would enforce 3D confinement and a potential depth around 0.22 mK per watt of trapping power. The field is tolerant to around 10 nm changes in wavelength with a 0.11 degree angular bandwidth. Metasurface-enabled point singularity engineering may simplify and miniaturize the architecture required for super-resolution microscopes and dark traps.
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Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Joon-Suh Park, Dmitry Kazakov, Christina M. Spaegele, Ahmed H Dorrah, Maryna L. Meretska, Federico Capasso, "Point singularity array with metasurfaces for blue-detuned atomic traps," Proc. SPIE PC12649, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX, PC126490U (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676740