current work
What's keeping us busy at the moment?
- Building our first linear radiofrequency trap
- Assembling the pieces required to photoionize, laser-cool, and image barium ions
- Developing schemes to control the internal states of trapped molecules
Recent photos and results
Barium oven, cranked up hot to bake off the oxide layer
Signal from a few barium isotopes on the RGA
Trap, with David (for scale)
Barium ion cooling and repump lasers, delivered July 2009
Trap in vacuum chamber with objective lens
Vacuum chamber assembly
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