The first MOT at the cold atoms and quantum optics group at UNAM.
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
BEC2: 2D MOT
Coffee discussion outside the lab (2006)
The first Group Picture (June 2005)
The main science chamber of Design of a dual species atom interferometer
The BEC1 Team (2010)
Melina+Mark+Daniel+Paul
Group Picture (Feb. 2008)
Journal of Physics B: Highlight of the Year 2012
Imaging section, TOP trap, and 2D-MOT of BEC1
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
BEC2: Grigoris, Melina, Michael and Melina in the BEC2 Lab
Waiting for the bus (2008)
Group Picture (2006)
Group Picture (2006)
Sunset seen from FORTH (Dec. 2005)
Spring-at-FORTH (2006)
The BEC Team (Dec 2008)
TOP trap of BEC1
BEC1: TOP trap coils
Group Picture (Oct 2006)
TOP trap of BEC1
BEC2: Closeup of the 2D-MOT of BEC2
About 10^6 Rb87 atoms in a TAAP ring.
The BEC Team (May 2009)
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
Mountain view from FORTH (Jan. 2006)
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
Group Picture (July 2018)
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.
