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)

Rapid production of metastable helium BEC using cross-beam dipole trap

12 Dec 2022, 11:30
15m
Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R4

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Speaker

Sam Meng (Australian National University)

Description

We demonstrate the laser cooling techniques for rapid production of a metastable helium BEC. The experimental setup features an in-vacuum magnetic trap and a cross-beam optical dipole trap. We obtained a pure BEC of 1 million atoms in 3.3 seconds.

Authors

Mr Abbas Abbas (Australian National University) Andrew Truscott Jacob Ross Mr Rohit Patil (Australian National University) Sam Meng (Australian National University) Sean Hodgman

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