2D MOT of strontium
2D MOT of strontium

2D MOT of strontium

First evidence of cooling and trapping of Strontium atoms in 2D MOT in our SrII setup. The bright spot on the figure above corresponds to the cold atoms within a transverse view. The vacuum tubes in the form of a cross host the four laser beams. The oven is enclosed in a grey thermal shielding, shown on the left part of the figure. The bottom-left inset shown the cold atoms in an axial view. The weak distortion is due to imperfect local balance of the laser intensity.