title: Note: Design and implementation of a home-built imaging system with low jitter for cold atom experiments.
abstract: A novel home-built system for imaging cold atom samples is presented using a readily available astronomy camera which has the requisite sensitivity but no timing-control. We integrate the camera with LabVIEW achieving fast, low-jitter imaging with a convenient user-defined interface. We show that our system takes precisely timed millisecond exposures and offers significant improvements in terms of system jitter and readout time over previously reported home-built systems. Our system rivals current commercial "black box" systems in performance and user-friendliness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hachtel
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gillette
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Clements
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1866, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bali