Fast loading of a cold mixture of Sodium and Potassium atoms from compact and versatile cold atomic beam sources
Abstract
We present the design, implementation and detailed experimental characterization of two-dimensional Magneto-optical traps (MOT) of bosonic Na and K atoms for loading the cold atomic mixture in a dual-species 3DMOT with a large number of atoms. We report our various measurements pertaining to the characterisation of the two 2DMOTs via the capture rate in the 3DMOT and also present the optimised parameters for the best performance of the system of the cold atomic mixture. In the optimised condition, we capture more than K atoms and Na atoms in the 3DMOT simultaneously from the individual 2DMOTs with the capture rate of atoms/sec and atoms/sec for K and Na, respectively. We also demonstrate improvements of more than a factor of 5 in the capture rate into the 3DMOT from the cold atomic sources when a relatively high-power ultra-violet light is used to cause light-induced atomic desorption (LIAD) in the 2DMOT glass cells. The cold atomic mixture would be useful for further experiments on Quantum simulation with ultra-cold quantum mixtures in optical potentials.
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@article{arxiv.2210.14084,
title = {Fast loading of a cold mixture of Sodium and Potassium atoms from compact and versatile cold atomic beam sources},
author = {Sagar Sutradhar and Anirban Misra and Gourab Pal and Sayari Majumder and Sanjukta Roy and Saptarishi Chaudhuri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.14084},
year = {2023}
}