Stand-alone vacuum cell for compact ultracold quantum technologies
arXiv:2101.07851 · doi:10.1063/5.0061010
Abstract
Compact vacuum systems are key enabling components for cold atom technologies, facilitating extremely accurate sensing applications. There has been important progress towards a truly portable compact vacuum system, however size, weight and power consumption can be prohibitively large, optical access may be limited, and active pumping is often required. Here, we present a centilitre-scale ceramic vacuum chamber with He-impermeable viewports and an integrated diffractive optic, enabling robust laser cooling with light from a single polarization-maintaining fibre. A cold atom demonstrator based on the vacuum cell delivers laser-cooled Rb atoms per second, using minimal electrical power. With continuous Rb gas emission active pumping yields a mbar equilibrium pressure, and passive pumping stabilises to mbar, with a day time constant. A vacuum cell, with no Rb dispensing and only passive pumping, has currently kept a similar pressure for more than \ch{500 days}. The passive-pumping vacuum lifetime is several years, estimated from short-term He throughput, with many foreseeable improvements. This technology enables wide-ranging mobilization of ultracold quantum metrology.
6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Applied Physics Letters
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