Integrated design of a compact magneto-optical trap for space applications

Qiuzhi Qu; Bin Wang; Desheng Lü; Jianbo Zhao; Meifeng Ye; Wei Ren; Jingfeng Xiang; Liang Liu

doi:10.3788/COL201513.061405

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 13, Issue 6, 061405 (2015)

Integrated design of a compact magneto-optical trap for space applications

Qiuzhi Qu, Bin Wang^*, Desheng Lü, Jianbo Zhao, Meifeng Ye, Wei Ren, Jingfeng Xiang, and Liang Liu^**

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Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Qiuzhi Qu, Bin Wang, Desheng Lü, Jianbo Zhao, Meifeng Ye, Wei Ren, Jingfeng Xiang, Liang Liu. Integrated design of a compact magneto-optical trap for space applications[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(6): 061405 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. A conventional MOT (left) compared with a compact folded optical path style trap (right).

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Fig. 2. Set of the CMOT mechanism. The up and down flanges are separately connected with ion pumps and an atomic clock chamber k.

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Fig. 3. The optical configuration showing one laser path of the CMOT. Another one is counter-propagating along this path completely.

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Fig. 4. The detected atom number variance in a long-term operation.

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$D_{G} (mm)$	Material	$α_{G} (° C^{- 1})$	$α_{M} (° C^{- 1})$	$t_{e} (mm)$	$δ_{1} (mm)$
10	BK7	$7.1 \times 10^{- 6}$	$23.6 \times 10^{- 6}$	1.05	$4.7 \times 10^{- 5}$
20	BK7	$7.1 \times 10^{- 6}$	$23.6 \times 10^{- 6}$	2.10	$7.6 \times 10^{- 5}$
30	B270	$9.4 \times 10^{- 6}$	$23.6 \times 10^{- 6}$	2.72	$1.6 \times 10^{- 4}$
35	JGS-2	$5.5 \times 10^{- 7}$	$23.6 \times 10^{- 6}$	4.41	$2.5 \times 10^{- 4}$