Hannover 2010 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 55: Poster II

Q 55.19: Poster

Donnerstag, 11. März 2010, 16:00–19:00, Lichthof

Rb MOT system for an advanced lab course at the University of Heidelberg — Silvânia Alves de Carvalho, Marc Repp, Christoph S. Hofmann, Rico Pires, •Kristina Meyer, Dominic Litsch, and Matthias Weidemüller — Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Philosophenweg 12, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

We present an improved and compact setup of a Rb magneto-optical trap (MOT) experiment for an advanced student laboratory course. The Rb MOT will be used to introduce the students to topics such as Atomic Physics, laser cooling, spectroscopy and to the experimental techniques relevant in AMO Physics. This poster presents the apparatus and the characterization of the atom cloud (atom number, density, temperature and loading). We are currently working on implementing photoassociation spectroscopy near the dissociation threshold in this sample of cold atoms as an extension of the lab course. Instead of usual printed instructions, the lab manual will be available in the form of a wikipedia, which contains descriptions of the experiment and the topics presented.