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Ph.D. Thesis - Physics

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Figure 7-20: Left: <strong>Ph</strong>otograph of Uraniborg 2. The electrodes are labeled with the voltage<br />

applied to each, as referenced in the text. Right: <strong>Ph</strong>otograph of Uraniborg 1 mounted in a<br />

CPGA. The width of the PCB trap is ∼ 1 cm.<br />

2, indicating the labels given to each electrode, and second, the trap (Uraniborg 1 rather<br />

than 2) mounted in a CPGA chip carrier for installation into the cryostat. A copper braid<br />

(solder wick) was soldered to one of the dc electrodes, with the other end screwed into the<br />

4 K baseplate, in an effort to heat sink the trap to 4 K.<br />

The strontium oven for trap loading was mounted on a 1 1/3 in. CF feedthrough which<br />

was mounted on the exterior octagon. The end of the oven was placed in a hole in one of the<br />

copper baffles. The hole was drilled at the approximate height of the trap. This particular<br />

oven was made of a thin stainless steel tube. Steel wires spot-welded to the feedthrough<br />

were spot-welded to strips of tantalum foil, which were then spot-welded to the steel tube,<br />

which was filled with strontium metal. The tantalum, which has a high electrical resistivity,<br />

serves to heat the oven with a lower level of current than would otherwise be needed. As it<br />

was, 2.0 A was sufficient for loading the trap, the lowest value of any oven the author has<br />

made.<br />

Imaging optics<br />

Optical breadboards were mounted at a proper level to address the ions, with lasers propa-<br />

gating roughly parallel to the plane of the trap electrodes. The 422 nm and 1092 nm lasers<br />

were set up on one side of the cryostat. Each passes through a series of collimating and<br />

focusing lenses before being coaligned on a dichroic mirror. The initial coalignment was<br />

done by eye. Their beam waists were minimized and the coalignment of the beams was<br />

fine-tuned using a ThorLabs beam profiler. On the other side of the cryostat, the 460 nm<br />

and 405 nm photoionization beams were brought to a focus at the trap center using a fast<br />

achromat from ThorLabs.<br />

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