High Spatial Resolution Imaging and Addressing of 2D Quantum Gases

We report on our method of both imaging 2D Bose gases and imprinting arbitrary potentials onto 2D quantum gas of cesium atoms. By carefully characterizing our imaging systems we are able to attain imaging and addressing resolutions of $\sim$1 $\mu$m. With this versatile system we are exploring exotic trapping geometries that are otherwise very difficult to prepare. Our system can allow for the investigation of novel quantum phenomena, such as quantum critical dynamics and quantum gases in fractional dimensions.