A High-Flux Source of Cold Strontium with a Loading Rate of $4\times 10^{10}$ atoms/s for Open Release

Thomas Walker, Anna L. Marchant, Elliot Bentine +17

We present a high-flux source of cold strontium atoms based on a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D MOT) and a Zeeman slower. We use the source to load a 3D MOT in a separate…