{"id":137,"date":"2021-09-10T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultracoldtest.quantumlah.org\/?p=137"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:29:17","slug":"blog-post-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"2D MOT of strontium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultracoldtest.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-1024x822.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175\" width=\"768\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-1536x1233.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-374x300.jpg 374w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII-310x250.jpg 310w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/First_2DMOT_SrII.jpg 1864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First evidence of cooling and trapping of Strontium atoms in 2D MOT in our SrII setup. 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