GTRI Ion Trap (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

GTRI Ion Trap

Caption

This is an optical microscope image of an ion trap designed at GTRI. The dark rectangle is the loading slot that calcium atoms stream through before they are hit with a laser and trapped.

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Georgia Tech/Charlie Doret

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