title: An electrostatic glass actuator for ultrahigh vacuum: A rotating light trap for continuous beams of laser-cooled atoms.
abstract: This article describes the design, characterization, and performance of an electrostatic glass actuator adapted to an ultrahigh vacuum environment (10(-8) mbar). The three-phase rotary motor is used to drive a turbine that acts as a velocity-selective light trap for a slow continuous beam of laser-cooled atoms. This simple, compact, and nonmagnetic device should find applications in the realm of time and frequency metrology, as well as in other areas of atomic, molecular physics and elsewhere.
authors.affiliation: Observatoire cantonal de Neuchâtel (ON), rue de l'Observatoire 58, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Füzesi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jornod
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thomann
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Plimmer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dudle
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sache
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bleuler
mesh_terms: D003080:Cold Temperature; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005898:Glass; D007834:Lasers; D008846:Micromanipulation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012399:Rotation; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D055672:Static Electricity; D014618:Vacuum