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Caught in a trap: laser cooling
A laser from a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is expanded and strikes a metasurface (MS) that further expands and shapes the beam. Diffraction by a grating chip forms multiple overlapping beams inside a vacuum chamber, which can cool gaseous atoms in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). Credit: NIST
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