{"id":50016,"date":"2021-11-15T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?p=50016"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:38:00","slug":"a-new-erbium-mot-in-the-t-reqs-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/a-new-erbium-mot-in-the-t-reqs-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"A new erbium MOT in the T-REQS lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-1536x1017.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-2048x1356.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-500x331.png 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-800x530.png 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-1280x847.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/T-REQS-MOT-1920x1271.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After several months of preparations and setting up our system, we have produced our first ultracold atomic cloud of erbium atoms in our new T-REQS lab. After initial slowing down in a Zeeman slower with a broad transition, we trap and cool <sup>166<\/sup>Er atoms in a 5 beam magneto-optical trap operating on the narrow linewidth transition at 583nm. We trap up to 120 million atoms and cool them to ~15 microkelvin\u00a0in a compressed MOT phase. This is a first step on our way to trapping ultracold erbium atoms in optical tweezers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have produced our first ultracold atomic cloud of erbium atoms in our new T-REQS lab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50018,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016\/revisions\/50018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}