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The mechanisms described in the previous chapters, especially mirror-mediated cooling and external cavity cooling, present several exciting avenues not only for theoretical, but also for experimental, research. This chapter presents an overview of the vacuum and laser systems employed by our group in our ongoing investigations into these mechanisms and into MOT miniaturisation and atomic trap arrays. In the first section I describe the physical makeup of the vacuum and laser systems; the second section describes the novel trap geometry and imaging process employed in our system.
Each piece, or part, of the whole nature is always an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected. [...] The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth”.
R. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
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All authors contributed equally to this paper. Hamid Ohadi and Matthew Himsworth performed the measurements; AX and HO processed the data and wrote the paper. Tim Freegarde supervised the project at all stages.
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Xuereb, A. (2012). Experimental setup. In: Optical Cooling Using the Dipole Force. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29715-1_7
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