Ion trapping microsystem development

David Lynn Moehring
Sandia National Laboratory

Micro-fabricated devices are taking on an increasingly important role in quantum information experiments that utilize atoms and photons and are expected to be an enabling technology for scaling the number of quantum interactions to achieve a useful quantum processor. Here, I will present the growing ion trap work at Sandia, specifically detailing our plans for ion trap microsystem development and testing with calcium ions. I will describe our plans to control the motion of ions in our micro-fabricated traps, integrate micro-optical components, and address other obstacles to the development of trap arrays suitable for performing quantum computations.