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Our Experiment

 

MOT table

MOT table

View of optical setup for Rb. Cooling (red) Repumper(green)

Ion pump

Rb lasers


Electronics


Splitting the light


Cameras..action!


Optics


Chamber

QM gas lab

Optical table

Locking the lasers

Experimental table

MOT chamber last September

Improving the Rb MOT

Lithium cell

Lithium "under control"

Monitoring the MOT

Shim coils

Top view of MOT experimental table

View of the MOT of 87-Rb atoms on the screen

Distribution board

LEDs+heatsink

LED array 5x5

LED+heatsink

LED array 5x5

Attaching heatsink+LEDs to the viewport

LED array blue 465nm

LED array UV 375nm

LED emission

under blue

375nm and 465 nm LEDs working

Setting up new components

SMD blue

Detail

MOT table

Li cell

Manifold for water cooling system

Pumping down

Safety system

Adding the optical path for 670nm MOPA

Cu mounts for water cooling in the Li spectroscopy cell