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.
Journal of Physics B: Highlight of the Year 2012
The BEC1 Team (2010)
Melina+Mark+Daniel+Paul
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
Group Picture (2006)
Spring-at-FORTH (2006)
The BEC2 Team (2014)
BEC2: Grigoris, Melina, Michael and Melina in the BEC2 Lab
A nice flat ring
The BEC Team (May 2014)
2006
The BEC Team (Dec 2008)
International Moustache Day (Nov 2007)
Group Picture (Oct 2006)
2D MOT in BEC2 Lab
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
Waiting for the bus (2008)
Group Picture (July 2018)
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
FORTH entrance (Jan. 2006)
The main science chamber of Design of a dual species atom interferometer
Group Picture (2006)
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
BEC2: 2D MOT
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
2006: Making the Laser Enclosures
BEC2: Closeup of the 2D-MOT of BEC2
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
The first MOT at the cold atoms and quantum optics group at UNAM.
