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Design and Implementation of an Inexpensive Fast Imaging System for Cold Atom Experiments

Gillette, Matthew Charles
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406925645

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2014, Master of Science, Miami University, Physics.
A home built system for imaging optical lattices is presented. Our imaging system uses a repurposed astronomy camera - the complete system costs less than $5,000 while rivaling the performance of a commercially available system which costs $40-50k. The camera must have an extremely low dark current, high quantum efficiency, as well as the ability to take precisely timed millisecond exposures. Using LabVIEW a sequence of precise electronic pulses is created to control the laser beams in order to load the lattice structure with cold atoms. When running a LabVIEW VI at millisecond timescales Windows introduces inaccuracies in pulse timing. A master slave computer setup, called a real time target (RTT) is created in order to keep accuracy to the microsecond level.
Samir Bali, PhD (Advisor)
Perry Rice, PhD (Committee Member)
Herbert Jaeger, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
Physics
Fast Imaging, Cold Atoms, Ratchets, Levy Flights, camera

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  • Gillette, M. C. (2014). Design and Implementation of an Inexpensive Fast Imaging System for Cold Atom Experiments [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406925645

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gillette, Matthew. Design and Implementation of an Inexpensive Fast Imaging System for Cold Atom Experiments. 2014. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406925645.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gillette, Matthew. "Design and Implementation of an Inexpensive Fast Imaging System for Cold Atom Experiments." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406925645

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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