A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
Group Picture (July 2018)
The BEC1 Team (2010)
Melina+Mark+Daniel+Paul
2006
Spring at FORTH (March 2007)
A smiling BEC — a reproducible chance event.
(black is more atoms)
A nice flat ring
The main science chamber of Design of a dual species atom interferometer
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
The first MOT at the cold atoms and quantum optics group at UNAM.
BEC2: Closeup of the 2D-MOT of BEC2
TOP trap of BEC1
2006: Making the Laser Enclosures
Sunset seen from FORTH (Dec. 2005)
Group Picture (2006)
The BEC Team (Dec 2008)
Mountain view from FORTH (Jan. 2006)
The BEC Team (May 2009)
The BEC Team (Sept. 2009)
About 10^6 Rb87 atoms in a TAAP ring.
View from inside FORTH (Jan. 2006)
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.
