Towards high-fidelity trapping and imaging of thousands of atomic qubits in optical tweezers

The scalability of neutral atom tweezer arrays is a promising aspect of the platform, necessary for realizing anticipated applications in quantum computation, simulation, and metrology. Contemporary experiments in tweezer arrays have demonstrated trapping and imaging limited to about a thousand atoms. Additionally, vacuum lifetimes and close-detuned optical traps restrict prospects for utilizing atoms for envisaged applications, including quantum error correction. Here, we report on progress towards trapping and imaging of several thousands of cesium atoms with high imaging fidelity and imaging survival, in an optimized ultra-high vacuum chamber at room temperature.