Raman Sideband Cooling and Lattice Imaging of Lithium

We report on progress towards achieving Raman sideband cooling and site-resolved two-photon fluorescence imaging of fermionic Lithium. This work seeks to extend our nondestructive lattice imaging technique [1] demonstrated in $^{87}$Rb to an atomic species with unresolved hyperfine structure. In addition to enabling in situ studies of a fermionic lattice gas, this technique opens new avenues for the creation and study of non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated many-body systems and measurement-induced quantum control.\\[4pt] [1] Y. S. Patil \em et al.\em\ PRA 90, 033422 (2014)