First Atoms trapped in our new labs in Hamburg!

19 December 2011

In the image, you can see the through one of our vacuum viewports into our UHV chamber. The red dot are Lithium 6 atoms fluorescing. The black circle just behind is the tube leading to our science chamber. The atoms will be moved there by an optical tweezer. To the right, two mirrors from our in vacuum bow-tie resonator are visible.

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