Production of 87Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Asymmetric Crossed Optical Dipole TrapSupported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2019B030330001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12025509 and 11874434), the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China (Grant Nos. 201904020024 and 201804010497), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (Grant

Abstract

We report the production of 87Rb Bose–Einstein condensate in an asymmetric crossed optical dipole trap (ACODT) without the need of an additional dimple laser. In our experiment, the ACODT is formed by two laser beams with different radii to achieve efficient capture and rapid evaporation of laser cooled atoms. Compared to the cooling procedure in a magnetic trap, the atoms are firstly laser cooled and then directly loaded into an ACODT without the pre-evaporative cooling process. In order to determine the optimal parameters for evaporation cooling, we optimize the power ratio of the two beams and the evaporation time to maximize the final atom number left in the ACODT. By loading about 6 × 105 laser cooled atoms in the ACODT, we obtain a pure Bose–Einstein condensate with about 1.4 × 104 atoms after 19 s evaporation. Additionally, we demonstrate that the fringe-type noises in optical density distributions can be reduced via principal component analysis, which correspondingly improves the reliability of temperature measurement.