The first MOT at the cold atoms and quantum optics group at UNAM.
BEC1: TOP trap coils
Mountain view from FORTH (Jan. 2006)
BEC2: 2D MOT
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
2D MOT in BEC2 Lab
Group Sailing 2007
BEC2: Closeup of the 2D-MOT of BEC2
The BEC Team (May 2009)
BEC2: Grigoris, Melina, Michael and Melina in the BEC2 Lab
Group Picture (2006)
Spring-at-FORTH (2006)
2006: Making the Laser Enclosures
Journal of Physics B: Highlight of the Year 2012
The first Group Picture (June 2005)
Group Picture (2006)
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
International Moustache Day (Nov 2007)
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
Sunset seen from FORTH (Dec. 2005)
Group Picture (Feb. 2008)
Group Picture (Dec 2006)
2006
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
The BEC Team (May 2014)
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
Group Picture (July 2018)
The main science chamber of Design of a dual species atom interferometer
Group Picture (Oct 2006)
The BEC Team (Sept. 2009)
The BEC2 Team (2014)
TOP trap of BEC1
Group Picture (Oct 2006)
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
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.
