Absorption Imaging of Ultracold Atoms on Atom Chips
Atomic Physics
2015-03-17 v2 Quantum Gases
Abstract
Imaging ultracold atomic gases close to surfaces is an important tool for the detailed analysis of experiments carried out using atom chips. We describe the critical factors that need be considered, especially when the imaging beam is purposely reflected from the surface. In particular we present methods to measure the atom-surface distance, which is a prerequisite for magnetic field imaging and studies of atom surface-interactions.
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@article{arxiv.1101.4206,
title = {Absorption Imaging of Ultracold Atoms on Atom Chips},
author = {David A. Smith and Simon Aigner and Sebastian Hofferberth and Michael Gring and Mauritz Andersson and Stefan Wildermuth and Peter Krüger and Stephan Schneider and Thorsten Schumm and Jörg Schmiedmayer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4206},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 8 figures. v2 contains updated figures, modifications to text