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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Note: Design and implementation of a home-built imaging system with low jitter for cold atom experiments
A J Hachtel1, M C Gillette1, E R Clements1
1Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
Abstract:
A novel home-built system for imaging cold atom samples is presented using a readily available astronomy camera which has the requisite sensitivity but no timing-control. We integrate the camera with LabVIEW achieving fast, low-jitter imaging with a convenient user-defined interface. We show that our system takes precisely timed millisecond exposures and offers significant improvements in terms of system jitter and readout time over previously reported home-built systems. Our system rivals current commercial "black box" systems in performance and user-friendliness.
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