Tailored optical near field potentials for cold atoms (MS Teams online seminar)

We present the tailored plasmonic potentials based on nanofabricated structures. The reflective and transmissive nanostructures are used to generate Surface Plasmon Polaritions (SPP). We show the processes of build up and propagation of SPP, and we present a quantitative comparison between near field observation and numerical calculations. We briefly describe the realisation of optical dipole mirror for cold rubidium atoms.