Photo Tour – Raizen Laboratory

This is a copy of the original photo tour written by Daniel Steck. Dan and I were both students of Mark Raizen at the University of Texas at Austin, and although this is a photo tour of Dan’s Cesium trapping experimental apparatus, my Sodium apparatus (see the last photo in this tour) and the ones we are buildling in this lab, are basically the same as pictured here.


This is just a brief tour of my Ph.D. experiment in Mark Raizen’s lab at The University of Texas at Austin. This will give you a rough idea of what the experiments I have planned look like, although there will be a lot of updates and improvements. This was an experiment that used ultracold cesium atoms to study fundamental effects in the areas of quantum chaos and the quantum–classical transition. In the same lab, just beyond the curtain, there is another similar experiment, but I don’t have any good pictures of it (save for the last one). This lab looks a lot different now; since I left, it has been converted to a rubidium BEC experiment.

You can click on any of the photos to get larger versions.