Digital micromirror devices for control of ultracold lithium and strontium

Digitally addressable microelectromechanical systems like digital micromirror devices (DMDs) have lately played a key role in building highly addressable tweezer-based quantum information systems and in providing testbeds for analog quantum simulation using cold-atom ensembles. We demonstrate the initial development of a DMD-based optical system for the projection of 671 nm light onto ultracold fermionic lithium, followed by the development of an optical system to project 532 nm light onto ultracold bosonic strontium atoms. By analyzing the generated spatial profiles, we investigate the resolution and efficacy of our setup and demonstrate the first steps toward simulating superfluid entrainment in Fermi-Bose mixtures [1] and simulating ultrafast processes using Bose-Einstein condensates [2].