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CHAPTER 3. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP<br />

M O T<br />

<strong>la</strong>ser<br />

Z eem an<br />

<strong>la</strong>ser<br />

anam orph ic<br />

prism s<br />

anam orph ic<br />

prism s<br />

fiber from<br />

m aster<br />

optical<br />

iso<strong>la</strong>tor<br />

optical<br />

iso<strong>la</strong>tor<br />

AO M<br />

λ/4<br />

to M O T<br />

to Z eem an<br />

slow er<br />

Figure 3.7: The principal optical setup for the <strong>la</strong>sers on the experimental<br />

table. Note that the 7 Li principal Zeeman <strong>la</strong>ser is not injected by the MOT<br />

<strong>la</strong>sers, but directly from the fiber via the AOM.<br />

found out that this was due to the fiber acting as a cavity. The beam was<br />

injected into the fiber on the experimental table that vibrated while the<br />

magnetic coils were switched off. The AOM which was installed after<br />

the fiber distorted the beam, such that we nee<strong>de</strong>d a pinhole to clean the<br />

mo<strong>de</strong> again.<br />

In the new setup we addressed all these problems. The AOMs to<br />

switch the beams are now p<strong>la</strong>ced on the table with the master <strong>la</strong>sers,<br />

with no vibrations from the coils switch-off, using beams coming directly<br />

from the amplifiers. This is shown in figure 3.3. A fiber cleaved with an<br />

angle on both ends eliminates the possible creation of a cavity, and the<br />

only optics after the fiber is a single lens which is p<strong>la</strong>ced directly after<br />

the exit of the fiber to collimate the beam, and some steering mirrors.<br />

This gives a virtually perfect Gaussian beam.<br />

The Doppler cooling beam also had to be re<strong>de</strong>signed, as it was taken<br />

after the tapered amplifier, which does not exist anymore. We also<br />

simplified the beam path of the optical pumping beam.<br />

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