Category Archives: General

BEC is back

Our all-optical BEC has been back for a little while, no real problems. We had some standard issues of shutters not shutting at the appropriate time, and magnetic fields not being what they should be, but everything is up and running. Atom numbers are comparable to previously, and we’re working on improving this.

Dual MOT is running

After a lot of mucking around with overhead tables, the new labs overheating and non-working water cooling, we finally have both magneto-optical traps working. The dipole trap is lined up and ready to go. So BEC soon we hope.