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| Time of flight pictures of the atomic cloud towards the transition to a BEC. | ||||||||||||||||||
| We have demonsatrated an all optical technique to evaporatively produce sodium Bose Einstein condensates (BEC). We use a crossed-dipole trap formed from light near 1 micron. In addition, we introduce photoassociation as diagnostic of the trap loading process, and show that it can be used to detect the onset of Bose-Einstein condensation.
Finally, we have demonstrated that the production of multiple condensates with this technique is also in a straight forward way archievable. |
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| Four crossed dipole traps generated by retroreflecting the trapping beams. | After forced evaporation four BECs have been created. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Picture of the experimental setup for the dipole trap. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Paper: All-optical generation and photoassociative probing of sodium Bose-Einstein condensates | ||||||||||||||||||
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