title: A versatile high resolution objective for imaging quantum gases.
abstract: We present a high resolution objective lens made entirely from catalog singlets that has a numerical aperture of 0.36. It corrects for aberrations introduced by a glass window and has a long working distance of 35 mm, making it suitable for imaging objects within a vacuum system. This offers simple high resolution imaging for many in the quantum gas community. The objective achieves a resolution of 1.3 μm at the design wavelength of 780 nm, and a diffraction-limited field of view of 360 μm when imaging through a 5 mm thick window. Images of a resolution target and a pinhole show quantitative agreement with the simulated lens performance. The objective is suitable for diffraction-limited monochromatic imaging on the D2 line of all the alkalis by changing only the aperture diameter, retaining numerical apertures above 0.32. The design corrects for window thicknesses of up to 15 mm if the singlet spacings are modified.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia. lisa.bennie@monash.edu
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Bennie
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Starkey
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jasperse
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Billington
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Turner
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005740:Gases / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D007909:Lenses; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D005740:Gases