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Losses of thulium atoms from optical dipole traps operating at 532 and 1064 nm
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Recently thulium has been condensed to Bose-Einstein condensate. Machine learning was used to avoid a detailed study of all obstacles making cooling difficult. This paper analyses the atomic loss mechanism for the 532 nm optical trap, used in the Bose-condensation experiment, and compares it with the alternative and more traditional micron-range optical dipole trap. We also measured the scalar and tensor polarizability of thulium at 1064 nm and was found to be $167\pm 25$ a.u. ($275\pm 41\times {{10}^{-41}}\text{F }\cdot \text{ }{{\text{m}}^{\text{2}}}$) and $-4\pm 1$ a.u. ($7\pm 2\times {{10}^{-41}}\text{F }\cdot \text{ }{{\text{m}}^{\text{2}}}$).