Strontium Magneto Optical Trap
This setup would form the essential
part of the Atom+Plasmon coupling studies. The long-lived metastable states in Sr would enable coherent manipulation
of the atomic state for Quantum information studies. As a part of the construction of this setup, the group has been
indigenously developing a variety of technology. We have successfully constructed a frequency doubling system for generating
461 nm from a 922 nm laser light source with an efficiency of over 30%. We have also designed and built a variety of
Data-acquisition and control systems to replace expensive and imported systems. A compact Atomic beam source of Sr has been
constructed and preliminary spectroscopic signals of various Sr atoms have been obtained. This spectroscopy system will be useful
in stabilizing the laser for cooling of Sr atoms.
Fig B: Experimental setup
Fig C: Distributed QIP using atom-plasmon coupling
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