11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Towards a compact Ytterbium magneto optical trap for use in precision timekeeping applications

14 Dec 2022, 16:15
15m
Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R5

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) PQS: Precision and Quantum Sensing Workshop Precision and Quantum Sensing Workshop

Speaker

Benjamin White (University of Adelaide)

Description

We report on progress towards a compact Ytterbium cold atom trap system, including the fabrication of grating magneto-optical trap chips and compact ovens. The aim is to develop a high-performance field deployable optical clock.

Author

Benjamin White (University of Adelaide)

Co-authors

Prof. Andre Luiten (University of Adelaide) Dr Ashby Hilton (University of Adelaide) Ben Sparkes (Defence Science and Technology Group) Prof. Charlie Ironside (Curtin University) Dr Rachel Offer (University of Adelaide) Prof. William Rickard (Curtin University) Xiao Sun (Curtin University)

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