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Review of Scientific Instruments

Atomic flux distribution from a low-divergent dark wall oven

Lakhi Sharma, Atish Roy, Subhasis Panja, Subhadeep De

Published May 1, 2019• 12 citations

Abstract

Nearly collimated atomic beam is of interest for a variety of experiments. This article reports a simple way of modifying the atomic beam distribution using a dark wall oven and describes detailed study of outcoming atoms’ spatial distribution. A simple design is obtained by employing the fact that inhomogeneous thermal distribution along a capillary results due to its partial resistive heating. Based on this phenomenon, we have designed a dark wall oven consisting of a reservoir, collimator, and cold absorber at the exit end of atoms, where all three are fabricated out of a single stainless steel capillary. The nearly collimated spatial distribution of the atoms resulting due to the absorber eliminating the atoms diverging above a certain angle is modeled and experimentally verified. A divergence as minimum as 1.2(1)° corresponding to a half angle θ1/2 = 0.9(1)° is measured at an oven temperature of 250 °C that produces an atomic flux of about 8 × 109 atoms s−1. Total flux as estimated using our measured spatial distribution of atoms matches well with the numerically simulated values of it for the dark wall oven.

DOI: 10.1063/1.5090199

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Atomic oven generating controllable atomic beam flux plays a fundamental role in quantum gas experiments. Here, we report a new heater design that can heat up an high temperature atomic oven with fast thermal response. The new heater shows a heating rate improved by 7.65 times comparing to that of the conventional resistive heater while the crucible temperature can heated up to 1200K. With this oven, we generated a collimated ytterbium beam with flux exceeding

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at 823 K. We believe that our design offers a promising solution for shortening experimental dead time and improve the experiment efficiency in cold atom researches.

We present a simple and inexpensive design for a multichannel effusive oven nozzle which provides improved atomic beam collimation and thus extended oven lifetimes. Using this design, we demonstrate an atomic lithium source suitable for trapped-atom experiments. At a nozzle temperature of 525 °C, the collimated atomic beam flux directly after the nozzle is 1.2 × 10(14) atoms/s with a peak beam intensity greater than 5.0 × 10(16) atoms/s/sr. This suggests an oven lifetime of several decades of continuous operation.

We present a simple and inexpensive design for a multichannel effusive oven nozzle which provides improved atomic beam collimation and thus extended oven lifetimes. Using this design, we demonstrate an atomic lithium source suitable for trapped-atom experiments. At a nozzle temperature of 525 °C, the collimated atomic beam flux directly after the nozzle is 1.2 × 10(14) atoms/s with a peak beam intensity greater than 5.0 × 10(16) atoms/s/sr. This suggests an oven lifetime of several decades of continuous operation.

An oven design suitable for producing stable beams of highly reactive metals is reported. Its attraction is in its simplicity, low cost and versatility in molecular beam and atomic/molecular physics experiments involving highly reactive metals such as rubidium, caesium, etc. An application is described for the case of atomic caesium, where the metal is produced by the chemical reaction Ba(s)+CsCl(s) to BaCl(s)+Cs(v). One of the main advantages of the present design is the use of a thin-walled, stainless steel pipe, as crucible and heater simultaneously, which considerably simplifies its design. With respect to the experimental method, the simplicity in the loading, working and cleaning procedures compared with the use of pure metal should be noted.