3 papers
physics.atom-ph2020
Crossed-Beam slowing to enhance narrow-line Ytterbium Magneto-Optic Traps
Benjamin Plotkin-Swing, Anna Wirth, Daniel Gochnauer +3
We demonstrate a method to enhance the atom loading rate of a ytterbium (Yb) magneto-optic trap (MOT) operating on the 556 nm intercombination transit…
physics.atom-ph2019
Excited-Band Bloch Oscillations for Precision Atom Interferometry
Katherine E. McAlpine, Daniel Gochnauer, Subhadeep Gupta
We propose and demonstrate a method to increase the momentum separation between the arms of an atom interferometer and thus its area and measurement precision, by using Bloch oscil…
physics.atom-ph2019
Bloch-bands Picture for Light Pulse Atom Diffraction and Interferometry
Daniel Gochnauer, Katherine E. McAlpine, Benjamin Plotkin-Swing +2
We apply a Bloch-bands approach to the analysis of pulsed optical standing wave diffractive elements in optics and interferometry with ultracold atoms. We verify our method by comp…