Laser ablation production of Ba, Ca, Dy, Er, La, Lu, and Yb ions

Abstract

We use a pulsed nitrogen laser to produce atomic ions by laser ablation, measuring the relative ion yield for several elements, including some that have only recently been proposed for use in cold trapped ion experiments. For barium, we monitor the ion yield as a function of the number of applied ablation pulses for different substrates. We also investigate the ion production as a function of the pulse energy, and the efficiency of loading an ion trap as a function of radiofrequency voltage.

6 pages, 6 figures

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• Laser ablation loading of a surface-electrode ion trap
• Bright Source of Cold Ions for Surface-Electrode Traps
• Photoionization and Photoelectric Loading of Barium Ion Traps
• All-optical ion generation for ion trap loading

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