We have trapped a single Cs atom in an optical tweezer. The micron-size optical tweezer picks out a single atom from the magneto-optical trap. The flickering is the atom coming into the trap, and then being kicked out by collisions with the background gas.
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Ultracold Molecule and Quantum Optics Lab @ Purdue
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