Ok I looked at that material covering Optical Molasses. Before any advanced optical tweezing can be done at the individual atom level it must be possible to accurately detect an atoms position and frequency. One technique that could get atoms to a state where you can accurately measure these...
I am trying to figure out a method for using optical tweezers to manipulate individual atoms into new meta-material structures. I understand this would require a very complicated process. I thought of some general steps this process might use.
This is roughly what I think it might require...