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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 62: Poster: Quantum Optics and Photonics V
Q 62.33: Poster
Donnerstag, 8. März 2018, 16:15–18:15, Redoutensaal
Quantum optics on the ISS — •Kai Frye1, Dennis Becker1, Christian Schubert1, Thijs Wendrich1, Ernst Maria Rasel1, and BECCAL Team1,2,3,4,5,6 — 1LU Hannover — 2U Ulm — 3FBH Berlin — 4U Berlin — 5U Mainz — 6ZARM at U Bremen
BECCAL will be an important milestone for the ongoing quest of further advancing quantum optics into space. A multi-user and - purpose facility will be launched to the International Space Station to perform a large variety of experiments with ultracold Rb and K atoms, therefore providing an extraordinary platform in a permanent microgravity environment.
Building upon the heritage of the MAIUS sounding rocket mission, which created the first Bose-Einstein-Condensate in space, German and American scientists jointly proposed research topics including the production of dual-species BECs, atom interferometry, ultra-cold quantum mixtures, shell geometries and spinor gases.
Our poster sketches the preliminary concepts and architecture, including the dimensions and estimated capabilities of the setup. Some crucial and newly developed components, such as a compact and robust tip-tilt mirror setup, will be presented in detail.
The BECCAL project is supported by the German Space Agency DLR with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) under the grant numbers 50WP1431 and 50WP1700.