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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 57: Poster: Quantum Optics and Photonics III
Q 57.1: Poster
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 16:15–18:15, S Fobau Physik
BECCAL: A atom optics experiment for the International Space Station — •Kai Frye1, Dennis Becker1, Christian Schubert1, Sven Abend1, Thijs Wendrich1, Christian Schubert1, Ernst Rasel1, and Team BECCAL1,2,3,4,5,6 — 1Leibniz University Hannover — 2University Ulm — 3FBH Berlin — 4Humboldt University Berlin — 5Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz — 6ZARM, University Bremen
The multi-user and -purpose facility Bose-Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Laboratory (BECCAL) will be important for advancing atom optics for space. Operated at the International Space Station it will open up a large variety of experiments with ultracold Rb and K atoms, therefore providing an extraordinary platform in a permanent microgravity environment.
German and US scientists jointly proposed research topics including atom interferometry, atom optics, physics of quantum degenerate gases and their mixtures. These will greatly benefit from extended free evolution times and the microgravity conditions.
Here, the scientific capabilities and the design of the device is presented. Our solutions to the constraints set by an accommodation aboard the International Space Station and our approach to cover a broad range of possible experiments will be shown.
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 50 WP 1431 and 1700.