title: A compact and efficient strontium oven for laser-cooling experiments.
abstract: Here we describe a compact and efficient strontium oven well suited for laser-cooling experiments. Novel design solutions allowed us to produce a collimated strontium atomic beam with a flux of 1.0 × 10(13) s(-1) cm(-2) at the oven temperature of 450 °C, reached with an electrical power consumption of 36 W. The oven is based on a stainless-steel reservoir, filled with 6 g of metallic strontium, electrically heated in a vacuum environment by a tantalum wire threaded through an alumina multi-bore tube. The oven can be hosted in a standard DN40CF cube and has an estimated continuous operation lifetime of 10 years. This oven can be used for other alkali and alkaline earth metals with essentially no modifications.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and LENS, Università di Firenze and INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schioppo
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Poli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prevedelli
authors.forename: St
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Falke
authors.forename: Ch
authors.initials: Ch
authors.lastname: Lisdat
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sterr
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Tino