We have designed and tested an atom chip for the first step toward the Bose-Einstein Condensation with an external chip. The external type is more applicative than internal chip, most established - long life time in a ultra high vacuum, to readily sup...
We have designed and tested an atom chip for the first step toward the Bose-Einstein Condensation with an external chip. The external type is more applicative than internal chip, most established - long life time in a ultra high vacuum, to readily supply electric power, to reduce the disturbance of trapped due to the chip's current and to prevent degradation of the vacuum due to out-gassing from the atom chip. A 16×16×70 ㎣ cuvette made by Pyrex is used to experiment. The lower part of the cuvette is bonded on vacuum pump system and the top side is covered by dielectric coated mirror on cover glass. And then the chip is carefully mounted on the mirror. In this sense, our system is a really external chip.
The vacuum chamber can keep 7.6×10^(-10) torr, enough to Bose-Einstein condensation, without operating Ti-Sublimation pump.
In this system, we have magneto optically trapped Rb atoms. (85)
b is trapped whit cooling beams, 7.1 ㎒ red-detuned on the 5²S_(1/2)(F=3)→ 5²P_(3/2)(F’=4) transition line, and repumping beam, resonance on 5²S_(1/2)(F=2) →5²P1/2(F’=3) transition line. And 87Rb is trapped with 7.1 ㎒ red detuned on 5²S_(1/2)(F=2)→5²P_(3/2)(F’=3) transition line cooling beams and 5²S_(1/2)(F=2)→ 5²P_(3/2)(F’=2) resonance repumping beam. In the result, we measure a number of trapped atoms in 10^(7) and a temperature in few mK by using absorption image of trapped atoms. In order to locate trapped atoms near the chip surface, mirror-MOT(Magneto Optical trap) which is more suitable for atom chip than the conventional six beams MOT is done. The trapped atoms are contineously trapped by U-wire on the chip and an external homogeneous magnetic field(U-MOT). Amount of a fluorescence of U-MOT is 27.1% of mirror-MOT's one in this system.
In conclusion, we confirm that our chip is suitable for Bose-Einstein condensation in a external type.