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Acta Physica Sinica

A double magneto-optical trap system using a slow atomic beam for atom transfer

Shuyu Zhou, Zhen Xu, Zhou Shan-Yu, Yuzhu Wang, 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所量子光学重点实验室,上海 201800

Published Jan 1, 2007• 4 citations
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Abstract

A rubidium double magneto-optical trap(MOT) system for Bose-Einstein condensation experiments has been set up. A slow atomic beam has been obtained with a low-velocity intense source (LVIS) and used to transfer atoms into an ultra-high-vacuum (UHV) MOT. By maintaining a pressure difference of 3 orders between LVIS-MOT and UHV-MOT, a lowest pressure of 1×10-9Pa can be achieved in UHV-MOT. The flux of the slow atomic beam is 1×109/s. About 4×108 87Rb atoms can be loaded into UHV-MOT. In this paper, maximum number of atoms captured in MOTs under two typical conditions have also been discussed.

DOI
10.7498/aps.56.165

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We produced a slow atomic beam of rubidium with a low-velocity intense source (LVIS) and loaded a magneto-optical trap (MOT) in a connected chamber with the beam. The hole for the atomic beam allowed us to keep the MOT chamber at a much lower pressure than that of the LVIS. The LVIS produced an atomic beam with a continuous flux of (4.3±0.4)×109/s and an average velocity of only 11±3 m/s. The MOT captured the atoms with 67±15% efficiency, which was limited by the atomic-beam divergence. The MOT held 6×109 atoms with a typical trap-confinement time of 8 s.
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In our double magneto-optical trap (MOT) setup containing a vapor chamber MOT (VC-MOT) and an ultra high vacuum MOT (UHV-MOT) for 87^{87}87Rb atoms, we find that transfer of atoms from VC-MOT to UHV-MOT can be enhanced by employing a pulsed VC-MOT loading followed by a pulsed push beam, as compared to that obtained by focusing a continuous wave (CW) push beam on a continuously loaded VC-MOT. By choosing appropriately the VC-MOT duration and push beam duration, the number of atoms in UHV-MOT was $\sim$3-times the number obtained with a continuous VC-MOT and a CW push beam of optimized power. The processes affecting the pulsed transfer have been studied.
We experimentally study the use of two-dimensional magneto-optical trapping (2D-MOT) for the generation of slow beams of cold atoms out of a vapor cell. A particularly high flux of $9\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{9}$ rubidium atoms/s at a mean velocity of 8 m/s is obtained using a combination of magneto-optical trapping in two dimensions and Doppler cooling in the third dimension $({2\mathrm{D}}^{+}\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{MOT}).$ The resulting width of the velocity distribution is 3.3 m/s [full width at half maximum (FWHM)] with a beam divergence of 43 mrad (FWHM). We investigate the total flux as a function of vapor cell pressure and determine the velocity distribution of our slow atom sources. For comparison, we also realized a low-velocity intense source (LVIS), first reported by Lu et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3331 (1996)]. We find that the ${2\mathrm{D}}^{+}\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{MOT}$ yields a significantly higher flux than the LVIS, even when used with an order of magnitude less laser power.
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A cesium double magneto-optical trap(MOT) system is established to prepare the cold atoms in the ultra-high-vacuum(UHV) chamber for cavity quantum electrodynamics(Cavity-QED) experiment.Utilizing a focused weak continuous-wave laser beam,the cold cesium atoms,which are cooled and trapped from the slow tail of cesium vapor at room temperature,are continuously transferred from vapor-cell MOT to UHV MOT.The effect of the transfer laser detuning upon the steady-state atoms number in UHV MOT,and loading process of double MOT are experimentally investigated.Typical pressures of the vapor-cell MOT and UHV MOT are(～1×10~(-6) Pa) and(～8×10~(-8) Pa,) respectively.Normally(～5×10~7) and(～5×10~6) cold cesium atoms with effective temperature of(72±4 μK) are loaded into the vapor-cell MOT and UHV MOT.