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All-optical formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate for applications in scanning electron microscopy

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We report on the production of a F=1 spinor condensate of 87Rb atoms in a single beam optical dipole trap formed by a focused CO2 laser. The condensate is produced 13mm below the tip of a scanning electron microscope employing standard all-optical techniques. The condensate fraction contains up to 100,000 atoms and we achieve a duty cycle of less than 10s.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0708.0810,
  title  = {All-optical formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate for applications in scanning electron microscopy},
  author = {T. Gericke and P. Wuertz and D. Reitz and C. Utfeld and H. Ott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0810},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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