Optical Characterization Of A Phase Fresnel Lens For Trapped Ion Quantum Computing

To efficiently collect light from ions in a trapped ion quantum computer, a lens with a high numerical aperture is advantageous. Using phase Fresnel lenses with large working distances and high numerical apertures, we can couple a large fraction of the fluorescence from an ion into a single optical propagation mode (TEM00). We have optically profiled a phase Fresnel lens with a numerical aperture of 0.64 and a focal length of 3 mm. A 350ᱵ nm beam waist and a beam quality M2 of 1.08ᰮ05 was measured near the diffraction limit.To efficiently collect light from ions in a trapped ion quantum computer, a lens with a high numerical aperture is advantageous. Using phase Fresnel lenses with large working distances and high numerical apertures, we can couple a large fraction of the fluorescence from an ion into a single optical propagation mode (TEM00). We have optically profiled a phase Fresnel lens with a numerical aperture of 0.64 and a focal length of 3 mm. A 350ᱵ nm beam waist and a beam quality M2 of 1.08ᰮ05 was measured near the diffraction limit.
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Conference Title

Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons 2009

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Classical and Physical Optics

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http://hdl.handle.net/10072/34862

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