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Figure 9-1: <strong>Ph</strong>otograph of the vacuum chamber used in Innsbruck for this ion-wire coupling<br />

experiment. The titanium sublimation pump is mounted on the left. Near the center, the<br />

ion pump, ion gauge, and main all-metal valve are mounted at an angle to the main axis<br />

of the chamber. The spherical octagon is on the right, with AR-coated CF35 (metric)<br />

viewports, roughly equivalent in diameter to 2 3/4 in. CF hardware.<br />

Sec. 9.2. Sec. 9.3 contains the experimental results, and in Sec. 9.4, we conclude and look<br />

to future experiments.<br />

9.1 Experimental apparatus<br />

Much of the apparatus is similar to that used in Part II. The basic elements of a room<br />

temperature UHV system, and rf-driven Paul trap are the same as used at MIT on the<br />

strontium ion. The vacuum system is shown in Fig. 9-1.<br />

For the rest of the section, we focus on those elements that are substantially different<br />

from the MIT setup, including the ion species, the microfabricated gold surface-electrode<br />

trap, and the moveable wire.<br />

9.1.1 The 40 Ca + ion<br />

The 40 Ca + ion has a level structure very similar to 88 Sr + . The structure is presented in<br />

Fig. 9-2. The laser wavelengths for 40 Ca + (that we used) are λDopp = 397 nm and λRep =<br />

866 nm. The spontaneous decay rate of the P 1/2 level is 23 MHz with a branching ratio<br />

of 16. Ion production is accomplished by photoionization (PI) of a neutral calcium beam<br />

in a manner analogous to that used for strontium (Chs. 5 and 7). The requisite photons,<br />

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