High-powered optical superlattice with robust phase stability for quantum gas microscopy

Optical superlattice has a wide range of applications in the study of ultracold atom physics. Especially, it can be used to trap and manipulate thousands of atom pairs in parallel which constitutes a promising system for quantum simulation and quantum computation. In the present work, we report on a high-power optical superlattice formed by a 532-nm and 1064-nm dual-wavelength interferometer with a short lattice spacing of 630 nm. The short-term fluctuation (in 10 seconds) of the relative phase between the short lattice and the long lattice is measured to be 0.003 pi, which satisfies the needs for performing two-qubit gates among neighboring lattice sites. We further implement this superlattice in a Rb-87 experiment with a quantum gas microscope of single-site resolution, where the high-power 532-nm laser is necessary for pinning atoms in the short lattice during imaging, providing a unique platform for engineering quantum states. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement