A bright metastable atom source at 80 K | Zendy

Wei-Jian Lu | Zendy; M. D. Hoogerland | Zendy; Dragana Milic | Zendy; K. G. H. Baldwin | Zendy; S J Buckman | Zendy

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A bright metastable atom source at 80 K

Author(s) -

Wei-Jian Lu,

M. D. Hoogerland,

Dragana Milic,

K. G. H. Baldwin,

S J Buckman

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

review of scientific instruments

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605

H-Index - 165

eISSN - 1089-7623

pISSN - 0034-6748

DOI - 10.1063/1.1372169

Subject(s) - metastability , atomic physics , helium , nozzle , materials science , flux (metallurgy) , ion source , atom (system on chip) , trapping , plasma , physics , nuclear physics , thermodynamics , ecology , quantum mechanics , biology , computer science , metallurgy , embedded system

We describe a high flux source of cold (80 K) metastable helium atoms. The source employs a direct current nozzle discharge which produces in excess of 1015 atoms/steradian/s. Liquid nitrogen cooling of the discharge source yields atomic velocities below 900 ms−1. Such a source has practical applications for experiments concerned with laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms.

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