Demonstration of a simple and compact ytterbium magneto-optical trap

Benjamin White, Rachel F. Offer, Ashby P. Hilton +5

We present a low Size, Weight and Power (SWaP), low-complexity, ytterbium magneto-optical trap (MOT). We demonstrate trapping of $1.4\times 10^6$ ${}^{171}$Yb atoms on the $|{^1S_0}…