Atomic Beam Apparatus


Starting on the left hand side, there is an oven which heats a Rubidium source until the atoms move at several hundred meters per second. The next two chambers are vacuum chambers, pumped by the various devices underneath. On the top of the second of these chambers you may see one of the two cameras used in the experiment. On the right you'll see a blue box. In fact there are two of them, each containing a diode laser.