Figure 3. Vacuum chambers and main laser beams. A beam of pre-cooled atoms, initially released from the two isotopes reservoirs (light blue), is pushed from the 2D+-MOT to the main science chamber via a differential pumping stage. A MOT is loaded right above the center of the atom chip and the atoms are pre-evaporated, after being loaded in the chip trap, using the chip RF antenna. The dipole lasers are depicted by the crossed red beams which trap the atoms at the chip vicinity to finalize the evaporation process. Once the two BECs are obtained, the interferometry pulses are applied by a couple of Raman beams (large light blue beam) along the sensitive axis.
Group Picture (Feb. 2008)
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
The BEC Team (May 2014)
Mountain view from FORTH (Jan. 2006)
FORTH entrance (Jan. 2006)
Group Picture (Dec 2006)
The first Group Picture (June 2005)
Group Picture (Oct 2006)
The first MOT at the cold atoms and quantum optics group at UNAM.
The BEC2 Team (2014)
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
Group Picture (2006)
The BEC Team (Dec 2008)
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
Waiting for the bus (2008)
Group Picture (Oct 2006)
Group Sailing 2007
TOP trap of BEC1
The BEC1 Team (2010)
Melina+Mark+Daniel+Paul
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
Coffee discussion outside the lab (2006)
BEC2: Grigoris, Melina, Michael and Melina in the BEC2 Lab
