锶原子Doppler冷却中再抽运光对原子俘获影响的理论和实验研究

本文主要研究锶原子光钟Doppler冷却过程中再抽运光对俘获冷原子参数的影响,实验上测得再抽运光光强和失谐跟所俘获原子数目的关系,并且测得了在同时注入再抽运光707 nm和679 nm后使俘获冷原子的数目提高了17倍,分析了再抽运光的失谐对俘获原子数目的影响,测得了再抽运光707 nm在失谐5 MHz的情况下俘获原子数目的波动小于3‰. 关键词： 光频标 激光冷却与俘获 原子俘获率     

紫外光诱导原子脱附技术在单腔磁阱装载中的应用

基于光诱导的原子脱附技术，采用脉冲紫外光剥离出玻璃池壁上吸附的铷原子以形成可快速开启和关断的脉冲铷原子源，成功地解决了单真空腔系统中磁阱的原子数和寿命之间的矛盾，突破了激光冷却和囚禁技术向小型化乃至微型化发展过程中的一个瓶颈.脉冲光源由390nm的LED阵列组成.实验结果表明它能够在1s内使真空铷原子气体分压提高近30倍,并且当紫外光关闭后系统的真空恢复到平衡状态的时间非常短，约120ms.测量了不同铷原子分压下磁光阱所俘获的最大原子数和装载时间,并由此得出系统的背景真空和磁光阱所能俘获的极限原子数，进一步得出磁阱的原子数-寿命积与磁光阱保持阶段时间的变化关系，结果显示在约1.25s处出现极大值，与无磁光阱保持阶段而直接进行磁阱装载情况相比提高了约0.3倍. 关键词： 激光冷却 磁光阱 光诱导原子脱附 原子数-寿命积     

光致原子解吸附对冷原子磁光阱装载的动力学研究

在获得光致原子解吸附(light-induced atom desorption,LIAD)效应的基础上,从理论和实验方面分析了LIAD对铯原子磁光阱装载的动力学过程的影响,特别是背景原子对磁光阱的影响.通过实验获得了不同光强和照射时间下关闭解吸附光后磁光阱中铯原子的衰减过程,理论模型定量地描述了背景铯原子造成压强的变化及其对最终平衡态下真空度的影响.该研究对中性原子的长时间俘获,有效控制磁光阱中原子的装载过程具有重要意义. 关键词： 光致原子解吸附 磁光阱 激光冷却与俘获     

冷原子EIT介质的原子数目和温度的测量

简要介绍了我们实验组冷却、俘获87Rb原子的磁光阱装置及冷却俘获过程。采用收集荧光法测得了俘获的冷原子数目,并根据冷原子团尺寸推算出了冷原子团密度。通过在冷原子团下方4 mm,7 mm,10 mm三处设置圆柱形探测光束,在原子自由下落过程中获得了短程飞行时间(TOF)吸收信号,通过数值拟合得到了冷原子的温度。结果表明:俘获的冷原子数目大约为109个,密度大约为1011个/cm3,冷却温度约为200μK,该冷原子团能作为很好的EIT介质。     

基于磁光阱中~6Li冷原子的真空度测量

2018年第26届国际计量大会召开后,伴随着国际单位制的重新定义,真空量值加速了其量子化进程.在超高/极高真空测量领域,可基于囚禁在磁光阱中的冷原子与背景气体碰撞的损失率以及损失率系数反演真空度.本文从磁光阱中冷原子真空测量的基本原理出发,基于量子散射理论小角近似和冲激近似计算了~6Li冷原子与背景气体碰撞的损失率系数,并利用光缔合法测定了在一定磁场和光场条件下的磁光阱阱深,基于两级磁光阱装置通过拟合冷原子数的衰减曲线精确提取出了碰撞损失率.最后在1×10^-8—5×10^-6 Pa压强范围内将真空反演量值与电离计示数对比,分析了制约测量精度提高的因素并提出了改进措施.     

铯原子双磁光阱中冷原子的输运：从推载到导引

在超高真空环境下实现中性原子的激光冷却与俘获，可以有效地避免背景气体对冷原子的碰撞所造成的影响，已成为玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚、冷原子光学腔量子电动力学、中性原子玻色-费米混合气体等实验研究的出发点。结合气室磁光阱和超高真空磁光阱的所谓双磁光阱，以其真空系统相对简单、参数易于控制、效率高等优点，得到了很大发展。双磁光阱既能在气室磁光阱部分从处于室温的原子背景中快速冷却和俘获原子，然后将其通过一定途径输运到超高真空磁光阱中，又能达到在压力极低的超高真空环境下制备冷原子的目的。     

内腔多原子直接俘获的强耦合腔量子力学系统的构建

腔内中性原子的长时间控制与俘获一直是腔量子电动力学(QED)中的一个难题,极大地制约了人们相干操控单原子及其与光相互作用的研究.基于传统Fabry-Perot光学腔,设计了一套易于内腔原子操控的强耦合腔QED系统,其典型参数为:腔长3.5 mm精细度约为57000,(g0,κ,γ)=2π×(1.48,0.375,2.61)MHz,临界光子数和原子数分别为1.54和0.89.该系统的特点是:能够在腔内直接实现冷原子磁光阱,并建立腔内光学晶格,实现腔内可控数目的中性原子的长时间俘获.通过合理选择构建光学偶极阱和原子成像系统,可实现对腔内单个原子或原子阵列的操控、探测、成像等.该系统可以克服传统腔QED系统中转移原子的困难,大幅增加腔内原子的寿命,为构建以腔QED系统为基础的量子信息演示平台提供了一种可能.     

费米6Li冷原子装载动力学的研究

我们用简单的系统实现了6 Li费米原子的冷却及俘获,研究了磁光阱中冷原子的装载动力学.由于其质量小和反冲动量大等特点,装载、冷却及俘获过程和其他的碱金属原子具有极大的不同.我们测量了装载率、单体碰撞损失率和原子数与温度的关系.基于气体动能和原子碰撞散射的理论计算来解释实验的测量结果.实现的长寿命6Li冷原子对将来研究超冷费米原子的量子简并及其强相互作用具有重要的意义.     

Rb原子磁光阱中囚禁原子数目与实验参数的依赖关系

研究表明，Rb原子磁光阱中所囚禁的原子数目对囚禁光的光强和失谐量，回泵光的强度以及磁场梯度有很大的依赖关系.用二能级系统模型对囚禁原子数目随囚禁光的光强和失谐量的变化关系进行了预估，理论预测的结果与实验结果定性符合.实验结果也展示了囚禁原子数目随回泵光的强度和磁场梯度的变化关系，要定量解释这些实验结果则需要更复杂的理论模型.通过囚禁原子数目对实验参数依赖关系的研究，得到特定的实验参数，来获得最大数目的冷原子. 关键词： 磁光阱 冷原子     

磁光阱中超冷钠-铯原子碰撞的实验研究

研究了磁光阱中异核超冷钠铯原子的碰撞机理, 测量了超冷钠原子的碰撞损失率, 得到了钠-铯原子的碰撞损失系数β_Na-Cs与钠原子俘获光强度之间的关系. 利用多普勒模型计算了不同俘获光强度下的钠原子磁光阱的阱深, 得到了临界光强的理论值, 与实验结果符合得较好.     

Experimental progress in gravity measurement with an atom interferometer

Precisely determining gravity acceleration g plays an important role on both geophysics and metrology. For gravity measurements and high-precision gravitation experiments, a cold atom gravimeter with the aimed resolution of 10.⁻⁹g/Hz^1/2 (1 g=9.8 m/s²) is being built in our cave laboratory. There will be four steps for our ⁸⁷Rb atom gravimeter, Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT) for cooling and trapping atoms, initial state preparation, π/2-π-π/2 Raman laser pulse interactions with cold atoms, and the final state detection for phase measurement. About 108 atoms have been trapped by our MOT and further cooled by moving molasses, and an atomic fountain has also been observed.      

Laser cooling of thulium atoms

We demonstrated laser cooling and trapping of thulium atoms at sub-Doppler temperatures in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). Up to 3 × 10⁶ thulium atoms were trapped in the MOT at temperatures down to 25(5) μK which is approximately 10 times lower than the Doppler limit. The lifetime of atoms in the MOT varied between 0.3–1.5 s and was restricted mostly by optical leaks from the upper cooling level. The lower limit for the leaking rate was estimated to be 22(6) s⁻¹. Due to a big magnetic moment of Tm atoms, a part of them were trapped in a magnetic trap from the quadrupole field of the MOT. We observed about 3 × 10⁴ purely magnetically trapped atoms at temperature of 25 μK with a lifetime in the trap of 0.5 s. Also we set up a “dark” MOT consisting of six crossed hollow beams which increased the number of trapped atoms by a factor of 5 leading to 1.5 × 10⁷ atoms at the expense of higher temperature.     

Single atoms transferring between a magneto-optical trap and a far-off-resonance optical dipole trap

Based on our work on single cesium atoms trapped in a large-magnetic-gradient vapour-cell magneto-optical trap (MOT), the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is remarkably improved. Also a far-off-resonance optical dipole trap (FORT) formed by a strongly-focused 1064~nm single frequency Nd:YVO₄ laser beam is introduced. One cesium atom is prepared in the MOT, and then it can transfer successfully between the MOT and the FORT which is overlapped with the MOT. Utilizing the effective transfer, the lifetime of single atoms trapped in the FORT is measured to be 6.9± 0.3~s. Thus we provide a system where the atomic qubit can be coherently manipulated.     

来自磁光阱中冷原子团的荧光干涉条纹及其应用

实验观察来自磁光阱中冷原子团的荧光经真空系统窗口的平板玻璃反射产生的干涉条纹，理论分析表明从从荧光干涉条纹的强度分布可获得关于俘获原子总数以及密度分布的信息。采用该方法实测了俘获原子总数，并模拟得到了不同密度分布时条纹的对比度变化。     

Efficient generation of cold atoms towards a source for atom lithography

We report on the efficient generation of cold rubidium atoms as a potential coherent atom source for atom lithography. We successfully trapped and cooled 2.6 × 10⁸ atoms in 5 s with a conventional magneto-optical trap simply by enlarging the diameter of the laser beam to 20 mm. The size of the laser-cooled atom cloud was measured to be 10 × 7 × 7 mm³. The number of trapped atoms was approximately 10 times as large as that of previous typical results, while the loading time of atoms remained the same.     

Magneto-Optical Trapping of Ytterbium Atoms with a 398.9nm Laser

We report the realization of ytterbium magneto-optical trap （MOT） operating on the dipole-allowed ^1S0 - ^1P1 transition at 398.9nm. The MOT is loaded by a slowed atomic beam produced by a Zeeman slower. All seven stable isotopes of Yb atoms could be trapped separately at different laser detuning values. Over 10^7 174 Yb atoms are collected in the MOT, whereas the atom number of fermionic isotope ^171Yb is roughly 2.3 × 10^6 due to a lower abundance. Without the Zeeman slower the trapped atom numbers are one order of magnitude lower. Both the even and odd isotopes are recognized as excellent candidates of optical clock transition, so the cooling and trapping of ytterbium atoms by the blue MOT is an important step for building an optical clock.     

Improved atom number with a dual color magneto-optical trap

We demonstrate a novel dual color magneto–optical trap (MOT), which uses two sets of overlapping laser beams to cool and trap 87 Rb atoms. The volume of cold cloud in the dual color MOT is strongly dependent on the frequency difference of the laser beams and can be significantly larger than that in the normal MOT with single frequency MOT beams. Our experiment shows that the dual color MOT has the same loading rate as the normal MOT, but much longer loading time, leading to threefold increase in the number of trapped atoms. This indicates that the larger number is caused by reduced light induced loss. The dual color MOT is very useful in experiments where both high vacuum level and large atom number are required, such as single chamber quantum memory and Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) experiments. Compared to the popular dark spontaneous-force optical trap (dark SPOT) technique, our approach is technically simpler and more suitable to low power laser systems.     

Continuously transferring cold atoms in caesium double magneto-optical trap

We have established a caesium double magneto-optical trap (MOT) system for cavity-QED experiment, and demonstrated the continuous transfer of cold caesium atoms from the vapour-cell MOT with a pressure of ～ 1×10^-6 Pa to the ultra-high-vacuum (UHV) MOT with a pressure of ～ 8×10^-8 Pa via a focused continuous-wave transfer laser beam. The effect of frequency detuning as well as the intensity of the transfer beam is systematically investigated, which makes the transverse cooling adequate before the atoms leak out of the vapour-cell MOT to reduce divergence of the cold atomic beam. The typical cold atomic flux got from vapour-cell MOT is ～2×10⁷ atoms/s. About 5×10⁶ caesium atoms are recaptured in the UHV MOT.     

Extending a release-and-recapture scheme to single atom optical tweezer for effective temperature evaluation

By recording the fluorescence fraction of the cold atoms remaining in the magneto-optical trap (MOT) as a function of the release time,the release-and-recapture (R&R) method is utilized to evaluate the effective temperature of the cold atomic ensemble.We prepare a single atom in a large-magnetic-gradient MOT and then transfer the trapped single atom into a 1064-nm microscopic optical tweezer.The energy of the single atom trapped in the tweezer is further reduced by polarization gradient cooling (PGC) and the effective temperature is evaluated by extending the R&R technique to a single atom tweezer.The typical effective temperature of a single atom in the tweezer is improved from about 105 μK to about 17 μK by applying the optimum PGC phase.     

Enhanced cold mercury atom production with two-dimensional magneto-optical trap

A cold atom source is important for quantum metrology and precision measurement. To reduce the quantum projection noise limit in optical lattice clock, one can increase the number of cold atoms and reduce the dead time by enhancing the loading rate. In this work, we realize an enhanced cold mercury atom source based on a two-dimensional (2D) magneto-optical trap (MOT). The vacuum system is composed of two titanium chambers connected with a differential pumping tube. Two stable cooling laser systems are adopted for the 2D-MOT and the three-dimensional (3D)-MOT, respectively. Using an optimized 2D-MOT and push beam, about 1.3×10⁶ atoms, which are almost an order of magnitude higher than using a pure 3D-MOT, are loaded into the 3D-MOT for ²⁰²Hg atoms. This enhanced cold mercury atom source is helpful in increasing the frequency stability of a neutral mercury lattice clock.