Towards experiments on a superconducting atom chip.

• Main Author: Wu, Xing.
• Other Authors: Rainer Helmut Dumke
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18096
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...