R. Scheunemann et al., Resolving and addressing atoms in individual sites of a CO2-laser optical lattice - art. no. 051801, PHYS REV A, 6205(5), 2000, pp. 1801
We report on the microscopic imaging of individual sites of an optical latt
ice with a period of 5.3 mum created by a retroreflected, focused CO2-laser
beam. In this one-dimensional lattice, the Lamb-Dicke limit is fulfilled i
n all three spatial dimensions. Single lattice sites have been individually
addressed with a focused near-resonant laser beam. Because of the negligib
le decoherence rate from spontaneous photon scattering such a lattice holds
intriguing prospects for the realization of fault-tolerant quantum logic g
ates.