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RuBECi® Ultracold Matter Cell
The RuBECi® is the optics industry’s first commercial instrument designed to enable the production of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC’s) and related forms of ultracold matter. The RuBECi® greatly streamlines the route to forming ultracold matter dramatically reducing research and development cycle time. As many as nine months of set up time may be eliminated with the use of the RuBECi®. Occupying a volume of less than one liter, the RuBECi® reflects a reduction in the size of typical BEC vacuum system by more than a factor of 100. The instrument utilizes an atom chip, which translates into simple interfacing, rapid BEC production with high duty cycle, and low power consumption.
The RuBECi® provides the functionality normally achieved in a very large ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system having a plethora of vacuum pumps, electrical feedthroughs, large electromagnetic coils, and so on. It is a self-contained (and portable) unit that provides two UHV. The entire unit can be held in one hand. Like many of its bigger cousins, the RuBECi® utilizes two chambers, a lower one to achieve high atom number, and an upper one to maintain an ultra-high vacuum. The unit is designed to be flexible so that the user can configure the system according to the goals of the researcher. Currently the user supplies the required external laser beams and magnetic field generating coils. The RuBECi® is shipped permanently under vacuum and ready to be placed into an appropriate apparatus.
The Physics Station
A highly sophisticated apparatus with mounts and CCD camera. The various elements within the station offer unparalleled compatibility with the RuBECI® setting the stage for rapid deployment of the system. Providing excellent optical access and easy manipulation of the cloud the station eliminates the busy work associated with setting up a BEC. Please contact us for pricing.
The Physics Platform
A complete opto-mechanical package which includes all of the optics and hardware needed to produce BEC in a RuBECi cell, in a highly flexible configuration. The Physics Platform provides excellent optical access to atomic samples and a 2' x 2' breadboard upon which the user can build their own experiments. The Physics Platform does not include optics or cameras for imaging atomic samples.
Accessories
ColdQuanta’s coil assembly consists of six coils arranged in a rectangular structure designed to give the required field gradients and bias fields for producing a magneto-optical trap (MOT) as well as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) when used with ColdQuanta’s RuBECi®. The assembly is designed to easily attach to the RuBECi® by aligning holes in the bottom of the assembly with the coil rails of the RuBECi®.
The magnet assembly provides a 2D quadrupole field over the cell with a field gradient of 20 Gauss/cm. The magnets are held on a translation stage that translates the 2D MOT relative to the aperture. This allows the user to optimize the flux of atoms from the 2D MOT to the 3D MOT. The ColdQuanta 2D MOT magnet assembly employs 2D Magnets, which eliminates the need for an additional power supply.
The Transfer Coil generates magnetic fields for the transportation of cold atoms within the RuBECi® vacuum cell. The cold atoms are loaded on to the atom chip at the top of the RuBECi®. The Z-coil also comes with an RF antenna to evaporatively cool the chip-trapped atoms.