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ization of the beam. The second cube reflects a fixed amount of power. Fluctuations in this power can be measured with the photodiode and fed back to an AOM used to stabilize the power. 7.4 Computer Control and Data Acquisition The computer control and data acquisition software and hardware is an updated version of the rubidium system. A newer version of Control, a Visual C++ program originally written by Florian Schreck, a former postdoctoral scholar, offers precision timing of 500 ns of the experimental sequence, and a user-friendly graphical interface. Control communicates with three different National Instruments cards, NI6533, NI6733 and NI PCI-GPIB. It generates a waveform of the experimental sequence and sends the infromation as 25 bit data to the NI cards. The first 16 bits are used for data, the next 8 address the different outputs and the last bit is used as a strobe bit to synchronize the outputs. This is necessary to achieve a timing precision of 500 ns. All 25 bits from Control are sent to all of the outputs, however, only the one with the matching address will respond. The first of the NI cards (NI6533) controls 16 analog outs, 32 digital outs and 9 direct digital synthesizer (DDS) boards. The output from the NI card first goes to a bus driver/buffer card. Here the signal is amplified and connected to flat ribbon cables, that connect to the home-built digital/analog out cards and the DDS. The analog and digital out cards from the rubidium experiment have to be modified to allow for the increased timing precision. The design of these boards can be found at [108]. The setup currently has two analog out cards, each with 8 channels per board, and two digital out cards with 16 digital outs each. The analog boards provide an output voltage between −10 V and +10 V, the digital outs work as TTL signals with a high of around 3.5 V. In addition 9 DDS boards are currently installed. These are based on the AD9852 DDS IC and provide frequencies up to 135 MHz. A commercial frequency generator (Wavetek 2407) provides a 300 MHz reference signal to the DDS boards. The DDS are used as frequency sources for the AOMs. 137
The second card (NI6733) offers eight digital in/out and two 24 bit counters. This card will be used for acquiring single atom detection data. For each detected photon the avalanche photodiode (APD) generates a pulse. These pulses can then be counted with the help of this card. The last card (NI PCI-GPIB) is able to control GPIB-cabale devices and is used to interface with GPIB devices. Thus far it was mainly used to communicate with an arbitrary function generator (Agilent 33250A). A second PC runs a program called Apogee Server. This program controls the two cameras in the experimental setup: The USB camera Apogee Alta U47+ and the FireWire camera Stingray F033B/C from Allied Vision Technologies. A third computer, running the software Vision, also written by Florian Schreck, communicates both with Control and Apogee Server. If a picture is to be taken during the experimental sequence, Control sends this information to Vision, which in turn tells Apogee Server to prepare the camera. Control then triggers the camera and Apogee Server downloads the picture information from the camera and sends the data to Vision. The main purpose of Vision is data evaluation. Depending on the type of image taken, Vision automatically displays the fluorescence image, or uses the raw absorption, the probe, and the noise image of absorption imaging to calculate the optical density. It also fits the data to determine atom number, the spatial extent of the cloud, etc. Vision automatically stores all the images and all the variables with values used in the experimental sequence. This allows a complete reconstruction of the experimental sequence at any time. 7.5 Imaging Imaging of lithium atoms using absorption imaging techniques is more compli- cated than for rubidium, due to the differences in energy level structure. Corrections to the simple formulas given before are therefore required. In addition it can be very helpful to image the atoms at a homogeneous magnetic field, and the presence of the field has to be taken into account during the imaging process. 138
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments v
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Chapter 7. Lithium Apparatus 92 7.1
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List of Tables 2.1 Physical propert
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interaction. The shift in the energ
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(a) (b) scattering length a 0 Energ
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a laser field with frequency ω. Th
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which maintains a constant η = U/k
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ight side of the box. An irreversib
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distribution of the MOT master lase
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shifts. First a frequency shift of
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scholar, Florian Schreck. It is wri
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5.2 Branching Ratios and Population
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effect of the reflected beam at zer
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Figure 5.10: Radius of the magnetic
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on the collision rate of atoms insi
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ferred via the single-photon coolin
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