The main science chamber of Design of a dual species atom interferometer
Group Picture (July 2018)
The first MOT at the cold atoms and quantum optics group at UNAM.
BEC1: TOP trap coils
BEC2: Closeup of the 2D-MOT of BEC2
Group Sailing 2007
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
The BEC1 Team (2010)
Melina+Mark+Daniel+Paul
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
Waiting for the bus (2008)
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.
