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Experimental Methods for Trapping Ions Using Microfabricated Surface Ion Traps
Published on: August 17, 2017
Sensitivity test of a blue-detuned dipole trap designed for parity non-conservation measurements in Fr
1Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Abstract:
A dynamic blue-detuned optical dipole trap with stable (87)Rb atoms produces a differential ac Stark shift of 18 Hz in the ground state hyperfine transition, and it preserves the ground state hyperfine superpositions for a long coherence time of 180 ms. The trapped atoms undergoing microwave Rabi oscillations are sensitive to a small signal, artificially generated with a second microwave source, phase locked to the first allowing a simple and effective method for determining signal-to-noise ratio limits through interference techniques. This provides an excellent means of calibrating sensitivity in experiments such as our ongoing Fr parity non-conservation measurement.
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