Development of a laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping experiment for Rubidium 87 atoms
Thesis (MSc)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. === ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A magneto optical trap (MOT) is capable of trapping a vapor cloud consisting of atoms cooled down to the micro Kelvin range. Three orthogonal pairs of counter-propagating laser beams of the correct circular polarisation form an...
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Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6492 |