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All-Optical Production of Chromium Bose-Einstein Condensates
Q. Beaufils, R. Chicireanu, T. Zanon +5
We report on the production of ^52Cr Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC) with an all-optical method. We first load 5.10^6 metastable chromium atoms in a 1D far-off-resonance optical tr…
Averaging out magnetic forces with fast rf-sweeps in an optical trap for metastable chromium atoms
Q. Beaufils, R. Chicireanu, A. Pouderous +6
We introduce a novel type of time-averaged trap, in which the internal state of the atoms is rapidly modulated to modify magnetic trapping potentials. In our experiment, fast radio…
A magnetic lens for cold atoms controlled by a rf field
E. Marechal, B. Laburthe-Tolra, L. Vernac +2
We report on a new type of magnetic lens that focuses atomic clouds using a static inhomogeneous magnetic field in combination with a radio-frequency field. The experimental study…
Accumulation of chromium metastable atoms into an Optical Trap
R. Chicireanu, Q. Beaufils, A. Pouderous +5
We report the fast accumulation of a large number of metastable 52Cr atoms in a mixed trap, formed by the superposition of a strongly confining optical trap and a quadrupolar magne…