Towards experiments on a superconducting atom chip.

This thesis widely reviews the literatures on laser cooling and trapping, magnetic trapping and atom chip. Temperatures and atom number densities of 87-Rubidium cloud in our magneto-optical trap, compressed magneto-optical trap and molasses experiments are reported. For `Z' traps with wires...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Xing.
Other Authors: Rainer Helmut Dumke
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18096