A high flux source of cold strontium atoms
Atomic Physics
2015-11-05 v2
Abstract
We describe an experimental apparatus capable of achieving a high loading rate of strontium atoms in a magneto-optical trap operating in a high vacuum environment. A key innovation of this setup is a two dimensional magneto-optical trap deflector located after a Zeeman slower. We find a loading rate of 6x10^9/s whereas the lifetime of the magnetically trapped atoms in the 3P2 state is 54s.
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@article{arxiv.1505.04507,
title = {A high flux source of cold strontium atoms},
author = {T. Yang and K. Pandey and M. S. Pramod and F. Leroux and C. C. Kwong and E. Hajiyev and Z. Y. Chia and B. Fang and D. Wilkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04507},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages, 16 figures