Eur. Phys. J. D 22, 355-364 (2003)
DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2003-00050-8

Investigation and characterization of a 3D double optical lattice

H. Ellmann¹, J. Jersblad¹ and A. Kastberg<sup>2

1</sup>  Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
²  Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden

ellmann@physto.se

(Received 5 September 2002 / Received in final form 16 December 2002 Published online 26 February 2003 )

Abstract
We present a detailed description of measurements performed with a novel double optical lattice setup. In this we trap two different cesium hyperfine ground states in separate periodic potentials. A detailed account of the technical solutions and its foundations are given. We demonstrate the possibility to modulate the relative spatial position of the lattices and perform a series of systematic measurements in order to investigate the static and dynamic properties of the double optical lattice system.

PACS
32.80.Pj - Optical cooling of atoms; trapping.
32.80.Qk - Coherent control of atomic interactions with photons.

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